Re: Help Help Help please ????

Ellen wrote:

> Near as I can tell -- she runs some sort of business and is being
> bilked by people who order and use freemail email addresses  ... she
> wants to get or buy a list of the freemail domains so she can not
> accept orders from them. I presume she wants the ones that aren't
> @yahoo @hotmail @gmail ...  I seem to vaguely remember seeing a list
> like that a year or so ago but there are so many freemail systems I
> don't know how anyone can keep up with them.

Ah, I getcha.  The problem with using that information as a
'discriminator' would be that -1- many mail systems have both a free and
paid version and it changes -2- legitimate people sometimes like to use
their 'other' addy for certain functions, ie I prefer to 'expose' my
gmail addy than some other, -3- if you refuse or decide to do business
based on what is someone's email address you'll have both false
positives and false negatives for bilkers and nonbilkers.

Depending upon what kind of business she is in, she would be better off
using something more tightly connected to meatspace, such as credit card
or drivers license identity..

Dnsstuff has a gizmo to query about free email addies, but I have no
experience with 'testing' it.  I don't think that is useful info.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin