Remember back in the day of running forums when hotmail “users” caused so much annoying spam that we basically just banned all hotmail account users? It caused quite a few problems for those that actually used hotmail and couldn’t understand why they weren’t allowed to sign up to sites using it. Well, I’ve been running The CPC for quite a while now and lately I’ve been getting tons of spam from real people using gmail.com addresses. In fact, I have more gmail spam than I do real gmail users.
So should I ban gmail.com on my site? Not on your life. That just seems so wrong on the internet these days. Google can do no harm, not like the big bad Microsoft and hotmail of days gone by. I suppose there are far more savvy gmail users today than there were hotmail users years ago?