# Why is the members feature disabled?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-members-feature-disabled/35673
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [October 4, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-members-feature-disabled/35673 "2000-10-04T20:21:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-members-feature-disabled/35673/1 "2000-10-04T20:21:19Z")

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Just curious.

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### Author: ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2000, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-members-feature-disabled/35673/2 "2000-10-04T20:30:41Z")

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It sucks up too many valuable resources. Plus, spammers could potentially harvest e-mail addresses from it.

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### Author: ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2000, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-members-feature-disabled/35673/3 "2000-10-04T22:30:00Z")

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Ok, thanks.