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Ok what makes this an advantage? It seems like a drawback to me. Why keep people from using free email services? No one should have to find other means to get a new email that isn't free. There free for a reason, so you don't have to pay.

 

Most people pay anyway, unless you dont pay for your internet service (broadband, dialup).

 

when you get your internet service (aol, tiscali, BT, Sky etc) you are given an email address, these email addresses are traceble as these are classed as paid/ISP email addresses.

 

hotmail,gmail,yahoo etc. are not traceble and therefore are classed as free email addresses and will be on this list.

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Can this be set to stop anyone signing up with a free email address, but also allow customers, once signed up and an active customer to be able to use a free email provider as their contact address?

 

or even as an additional contact?

 

Currently on my system, if an existing user attempts to change their email address to gmail.com, they get the message telling them that we don't allow the use of free emails.

 

I only want this for signups, not existing customers.

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i still find this sort of feature bewilderingly stupid. the internets email system is built on free email providers, 90% of the internets email users are still using them and will for a very long time to come. why on earth would you want to block those as clients? Instead of doing that, spam filter your emails, perform fraud checks, validate your orders as legitimate and you dont need to block them.

 

Look at it this way, anybody at all can buy a domain and send emails from it. does that make them a legitimate client? no it does not, it just means they bought a domain.

 

On top of this, a great many of the people that buy a service from a company, stay with that company (assuming its a good company). so your closing off the people that are most likely to become a client, in favour of those that already have a service.

 

Bravo!

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