Post #38089 by SugarCaddyDaddy on Mon, Jun 9, 2003 11:07 AM

As we grow in number here on TC, I do believe we will be hit more and more from spammers, so I thought I'd pose a question that's actually for Hanford (and Mig), but hopefully a good answer can be found with suggestions from all of us:

How about requiring a minimum of at least a verifiable email address rather than just allowing people to register with just a sign-on name?

A person must first register, but cannot post until TC (Hanford, Mig) sends a "Welcome to Tiki Central" email to the registered person. The person would actually have to email 3 names of desired screen names to Hanford and he would verify that one of the three is available, input the name for them with a generic password, which the new member can modify when they return to TC, and thus 'verifying' the new members email address.

To take it a step further, why not a monthly "Letter from Hanford (and Mig)" sent to everyone's email address. Nothing fancy, just another way of a continuing verification of email addresses. Those that bounce back with an incorrect or non-existing email address will have their screen name deactivated until the member notices that they cannot post anything and will have to contact Hanford with their correct/new email address. Yeah, it's more work for Hanford....but we do have 2 Special Agents that can assist, don't we?

I believe we are different in comparison to other on-line forums, since we actually like to meet each other to share in experiences related to Tiki, rather than just sharing knowledge on-line. In addition, taking the example of Sabu's birthday party, it's helpful if we did have everyone's email address in case a secret surprise birthday party is being planned. We all really didn't know who would be able to show up at Sabu's gathering beyond those that actually had a listed email address, and it would have been nice to be able to contact others to join us at his party, but WE DIDN'T HAVE AN EMAIL ADDRESS!

Lastly, it also helps for those traveling tiki-philes to be able to search for TC'ers in various parts of the country (and world), if members listed their location as an actual city and state/province, rather than "tikiland","hulaland","the land of tiki", etc., etc..

What are your thoughts?

Just my 2 (20 in this case) coconuts worth.

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[ Edited by: sugarcaddydaddy on 2003-06-09 11:12 ]