Originally posted by: Kirsten
Why would go.com or mail.com be more acceptable to anandtech than hotmail or yahoo.com?
Thx, Kirsten
This is mostly a semi educated guess and the short version.
They may eventually be banned if posters from there become a problem. Anonymous email addressess are not liked here because there is less accountability.
Say a person who is spamming these forums uses comcast. Spamming is a violation of Anandtech's TOS and they risk having their account closed by their ISP. This is assuming comcast would cooperate with AT. AOL didn't and they can't register here anymore. Also if a person from comcast trolls (rips off) a member on the For/Sale/Trade forum, it would be easier to track that person.
Now we have Hotmail/yahoo/etc.. If they spam or troll there is no way to find/catch them.
IMHO, it is about accountability. I like it when I do trades but I dislike having my "good" email address hanging out there.