No Public Email Addresses

spacemonkey · April 27th, 2004, 12:54 pm

QuotePlease note that we no longer accept addresses from domains such as hotmail, yahoo, etc. When you update your e-mail address, a new login password will be sent to the new e-mail address.What is that all about? What addresses are acceptable?

RFMontraz · April 27th, 2004, 1:33 pm

Job addresses. To prevent multiple identities I'd say.

Paul · April 27th, 2004, 3:10 pm

It's not so much multiple personalities, which was amusing...for a while. It is more to do with threats of legal action, and is standard practice with larger forums. We have to be able to show that we take every possible step to keep content on the site 'legal.' P

RFMontraz · April 27th, 2004, 3:22 pm

Interesting. But what sort of legal action? I mean can you make an example of illegal content that could get Wilmott into trouble? - apart from some kind of porn which wouldn't be featured here anyway...

Paul · April 27th, 2004, 3:55 pm

You don't need any details, and I don't want to give people ideas! P

SanFranCA2002 · April 27th, 2004, 5:35 pm

So where did the original quote come from? Was this an emai that went out? I gave a yahoo address as my contact when I originally signed up at Wilmott.com, but given all the virus's and such, my Bank suspended use of yahoo accounts and I haven't been able to access it in 6 months.

RFMontraz · April 28th, 2004, 11:27 am

QuoteOriginally posted by: SanFranCA2002So where did the original quote come from? Was this an emai that went out? I gave a yahoo address as my contact when I originally signed up at Wilmott.com, but given all the virus's and such, my Bank suspended use of yahoo accounts and I haven't been able to access it in 6 months.Go to profile, it's at the top of the page.

DominicConnor · May 14th, 2004, 10:23 am

Math.Com addresses are rarely stopped by banks, relatively low amounts of Spam there as well.

skeptible · September 12th, 2004, 12:28 pm

Are there still problems with this?I still can't change my email address to a non-public one, and the new password I get sent does not work when I try logging in with it.Hey Admin, what gives?

Administrator · September 12th, 2004, 2:26 pm

<blockquote>Quote<hr>Please note that we no longer accept addresses from domains such as hotmail, yahoo, etc. When you update your e-mail address, a new login password will be sent to the new e-mail address.<hr></blockquote>The policy of the site is now only to accept emails accounts that identify the person. ISP mail accounts are not acceptable. To be as fair as possible, those who have been using Public/ISP accounts are only being asked to change them when they wish to make changes to their profile.

skeptible · September 12th, 2004, 4:04 pm

Why?My email address is my own personal one for home use.This seems to be a big imposition...having to use a domain name from a specific industry classification.Why won't you let us use domain names from our ISP's? Furthermore, what if you neither attend university nor work for a financial institution?Seems prejudiced to me.

skeptible · September 12th, 2004, 4:07 pm

QuoteOriginally posted by: PaulIt's not so much multiple personalities, which was amusing...for a while. It is more to do with threats of legal action, and is standard practice with larger forums. We have to be able to show that we take every possible step to keep content on the site 'legal.' POther than for SPAM purposes, I don't see what other "legal" reasons there are for doing this.This is bullshit.

Paul · September 12th, 2004, 5:47 pm

skeptible,we have had a lot of trouble in the past with abuse on the Forum and it was usually associated with people who had 'anonymous' email addresses. We implemented the policy after taking legal advice and researching other forums.P

DominicConnor · September 16th, 2004, 8:57 am

One solution might be to have an approved public email.I have a math.com email address, which is actually provided by Everyone.netSo we'd get Wilmott.com emails, which doesn't seem a bad thing.It's free to users, and the source site gets a rake off from the ads that come with it.I've used it for a year, and they don't seem to screw you around.It seems to me that if current member is a bona fide real person, then transferring their public Email shouldn't be an issue.Identifying new people is a larger challenge, but we should be able to solve this.

DrBen · October 29th, 2004, 6:59 am

How about letting the senior members use any emails they like.Since, the generally huge investment of there time in the forummeans that it is unlikely they are going to do anythinjg to getthemselves banned. I want to move over to gmail.com but I guessI cannot do this under the present rules.Also, what do self-employed people do? Or the guys tradingthe huge volumes from Bermuda? These people do not reallyhave a work email, but can add alot of value to Wilmott.