Do you think there are people that 'use' the internet that DON'T have an email address?

[rnmcd]

I'm trying to decide if I should make people that register to a site include their email address.

 

[notfred]

Maybe 3 or 4 of them.

 

[meltdown75]

Maybe someone at an internet cafe... a n00b

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: rnmcd
I'm trying to decide if I should make people that register to a site include their email address.

yes, i wouldn't let them register unless they have an email addy.

 

[farmercal]

Homeless people still walk the street - so what's your point?

 

[JasGamer]

Originally posted by: farmercal
Homeless people still walk the street - so what's your point?

Most irrelevant post ever.

 

[rnmcd]

Originally posted by: farmercal
Homeless people still walk the street - so what's your point?

 

[rnmcd]

Originally posted by: farmercal
Homeless people still walk the street - so what's your point?

but you think they still surf the 'net?

 

[Spencer278]

Maybe people don't want your spam. But you can spam my email it is asjdbhfjksadhf@go____yourself.com

 

[Malak]

I know homeless people with email messages.

 

[dullard]

Many people use the internet without email addresses.
1) Poor without their own computer or email use public computers/friends computers to browse.
2) Children use the internet all the time without their own email address (if that counts).
3) I know several bass-ackwards people who are quite smart but who have no common sense whatsoever. I think they may be somewhat mentally ill. I've helped them learn to use the internet and they have no computer or email address.

I always register to sites with 123@123.com or abc@abc.com (I hope those aren't anyone's real address). I simply don't want spam. So requiring email will just give you a bunch of garbage email addresses that don't belong to the people who registered.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: dullard
Many people use the internet without email addresses.
1) Poor without their own computer or email use public computers/friends computers to browse.
2) Children use the internet all the time without their own email address (if that counts).
3) I know several bass-ackwards people who are quite smart but who have no common sense whatsoever. I think they may be somewhat mentally ill. I've helped them learn to use the internet and they have no computer or email address.

What does not having a computer have to do with not having an email address? Ever hear of hotmail?

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: notfred
What does not having a computer have to do with not having an email address? Ever hear of hotmail?

Most of those cases don't have email either. Needing the internet and needing email are 100% different things. In my case #3, I taught several of them to find hot deals, information for classwork, etc. No reason to need an email address for that. And no, none of them had one.

 

[rnmcd]

Originally posted by: dullard So requiring email will just give you a bunch of garbage email addresses that don't belong to the people who registered.

I was just trying to make the registration process more concise. Instead of a username, password, and email address for registration--just email and password.

By the way, it's an ecommerce site.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: rnmcd
I was just trying to make the registration process more concise. Instead of a username, password, and email address for registration--just email and password.

By the way, it's an ecommerce site.

I would think for commerce, you'd want a verified email (such as emailing the registered person their password). But of course, I don't know your specific application.

A lot of places like that use the email address as the username by default. Thus you'd need 2 things: email and password. That is still more simple than using all three.

 

[Doggiedog]

I know someone who thinks with Internet access, you get one email account. He thinks someone took the email of account of the access he has so he never bothered getting one.

 

[shenaniganz]

Depends what the site is. Most the time I don't even use a real e-mail address when asked.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: notfred
Maybe 3 or 4 of them.

Hehe

Cheers notfred :beer:

Do you think there are people that 'use' the internet that DON'T have an email address?

Yes

 

[MrChad]

Absolutely. My fiancee is a teacher in the Bronx. She has many students whose parent(s) cannot afford a home computer. They often go to the library for internet access, but many do not have email addresses. My fiancee showed one how to sign up for a Yahoo account.

 

[DougK62]

I know many people that don't have their own computer, but they all have one of those free email addresses.

 

[rnmcd]

Thanks folks...now I'm even more undecided.