Kevin

When we discussed the usefulness of the internet for a forum in 1992 together with Dieter Bergman and Werner Engelmaier nobody ever thought that the net would once become such a public domain.
I do agree that Dieters initial idea of such a platform is misused nowadays for promotional reasons. However, limiting the forum to IPC members seems a very hard restriction for me. Compared to the useful mails, the spams are rare and I can well live with them using my DELETE button.


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>Von: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im Auftrag von Glidden, Kevin
>Gesendet: Donnerstag, 9. Juli 2009 16:28
>An: [log in to unmask]
>Betreff: [TN] membership limitations to Technet
>
>While I highly value the all-inclusive nature of this forum, it is
>perhaps an exploitable feature as well.  I continuously receive emails
>from people offering services with whom I have had no previous
>interactions, and I often assume (perhaps incorrectly?) that our contact
>information and email addresses are being mined from the forum by those
>who join simply to generate contact lists.  Would limiting Technet
>membership to those from domains whose companies are IPC members, or
>requiring entering of an IPC membership number to register destroy the
>all-inclusive nature, or improve the quality?
>
>Does anyone else share these observations?  Thoughts?
>
>
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