Matt Hamilton@dcc @ryan @Richard You're right, the absence of cost imposed on posting is a choice the administrators of the big servers have made. But email verification, the out-of-band SMTP loop, IS a cost and *does* provide administrators of servers with tools and choices.
Show me one AP server out there right now that doesn't require email verification before posting and I will show you an AP spam shithole.
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