forum registration

[trinidad]

gmx mail yes, along with yahoo, outlook, and mail ru. read the forum user agreement. apparently gmail doesn't work either though it's not mentioned because I just tried it. this is definitely going to come back and haunt me because I have set up many many new installations of LL with gmx mail for customers and friends. I've personally hated free email ever since Linuxwaves and XRS ended. How annoying for new users too. I dunno but if you eliminate gmail and gmail derivatives and mail.com and derivatives and mail.ru and derivatives because of spambots you pretty much eliminate every major player in the free email options. What this really means is that new Linux Lite users converted from MS have to use paid for email to register at the LL forums. By the way so called "bots" were invented by google and all search engines use them. hackers build them into malware to harvest usage info. thinking about this a little harder it seems to me that maybe the server is too small, and/or the spambot security scanner can't get the job done fast enough. the future may be that forum sites may have to provide an on deck limited email server, (the old MS, Yahoo, Google model from the get go). good luck with this because spambots are here to stay, and eliminating free email address registrations on forum sites is not going to have any effect on the free mail providers, and is counter-intuitive to the FOSS philosophy anyway. New computer users are going to collect garbage usually out of simple minded curiosity, and free email bots make money for the providers. You'll never change that. Maybe we need a form of check sum registration, simpler given the number of downloads compared to the number of free email users. The audience is Windows converts. Clickers. It's hard enough for most of them to fill out the registration form.

TC