# I have a dream... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 29, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-dream/8630 "2000-04-29T05:31:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-dream/8630/1 "2000-04-29T05:31:46Z")
that board members will be judged not by their e-mail providers, but by the content of their character, and the fact that they’ve been here a damn year for cryin’ out loud! What a crock! ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-dream/8630/2 "2000-04-29T05:50:13Z")
I changed email addresses from my Hotmail email to my (not so) personal email and now I’m not banned. _sigh_ I made the hotmail so my other email address won’t get spammed. Now I don’t know if there are spammers around here and I know that you all are against people spamming the boards, but still I don’t like it giving my personal email in public like this. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-dream/8630/3 "2000-04-29T05:56:35Z")
1. Read the damn announcement at the top of this forum listing please please please. 2. Change your profile so your email address is not visible. There’s always a couple of glitches in anything new and this is very new. It’s gonna be better, just hold on and stop whining. your humble TubaDiva Administrator The Straight Dope ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-dream/8630/4 "2000-04-29T06:00:28Z")
☹ Sorry I see it now. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2000, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-dream/8630/5 "2000-04-30T17:19:09Z")
I for one enjoy getting mail from other boardmembers, and my hotmail address is the only e-mail I use. I don’t know how to access the mail in my ISP and my husband doesn’t need to see what all you freaks write to me, lol. I have changed my profile address to another free service which you obviously didn’t think to ban (See? What’s the point?) but I’ve come up with a way to make my preference known. Heh heh. ---
**Author:** ![jdavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@jdavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdavis)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2000, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-dream/8630/6 "2000-04-30T18:07:57Z")
Sorry for the inconvenience. It wasn’t an intentional ban. It was however a temporary problem which was resolved on Saturday. Please let me know if you aren’t able to use your [hotmail.com](http://hotmail.com) account. Jerry ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-dream/8630/7 "2000-04-30T19:55:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Sorry for the inconvenience. It wasn’t an intentional ban. It was however a temporary problem which was resolved on Saturday. > \*\* D’OH! MMM, Mmmm, Mmm…this is some tasty crow. Yummy! (My apologies, I remember there being discussion of banning Hotmail accounts as a troll-busting measure and I assumed that’s what happened.) ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2000, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-dream/8630/8 "2000-04-30T19:59:18Z")
Some of the moderators have Hotmail accounts, so they know it’s like any other address. Matter of fact, most ISP users have the option of several accounts to accomodate private mail for several family members.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2000, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-dream/8630/9 "2000-04-30T21:10:55Z")
And the beat goes on, and the beat goes on…know what’s playing?? Yes, another ‘Band Member’ shows up partly clothed. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![FlatULance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@FlatULance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlatULance)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-dream/8630/10 "2000-05-05T02:08:39Z")
Hotmail seems fine now.