Repairs and engineering services

[digitalcut]

Hi all,

Arthur Burge, a local TV engineer has asked me to post this message, as he has found it impossible to register with DVdoctor with his current email address... goodness knows why!
I can personally recommend him as he has done several repairs and cable work for me.
This is what he has to say:

I have started a comprehensive business for the repair of audio and video equipment as was my job at Exeter College for 15 years where I repaired everything from broadcast cams & vtr's down to the humble overhead projector, including 4000 analogue & DV cam repairs.

Contact Arthur on acwburge@yahoo.co.uk or mob 07518052610

[pkbristol]

I had the same problem with my email address when i tried to join this forum, i was told that my email address was "banned", i was using a "hotmail" address, maybe the yahoo ones are the same.
I got round it by getting a free Googlemail account then joined with that.
Tell your friend to try that.

Paul.

[Barry Hunter]

Does your friend have a web site & where is he located? Curios as to whether he`s local i.e. Devon.

[tilski]

Hello

I too would like to speak up on Arthurs behalf. I've used him to repair decks and camera before and he knows his stuff. I worked with him for many years and there was nothing this man couldn't fix. He's an ace with cameras, deck's and power supplies to mention a few.

He is based just outside Exeter so is local to you Barry. Otherwise I can drop gear off to him if you like as I'm going to be dropping a camera off with him soon.

Til

[Barry Hunter]

Cheers Til! Don`t have any probs at the moment, touch wood.

[Alan Roberts]

I'll pass this on and try to find out why he can't register.

[bcrabtree]

yahoo and hotmail are, indeed, both banned addresses.

And, fact is, there is now good reason for us to now consider banning gmail, too.

Fact is it probably makes a lot of sense for us to insist that anyone who signs up in future has a "real" ISP-based address.

The reason that yahoo and hotmail addresses were banned were because they were the source of a huge proportion of all the many spam postings that were being made.

Today, the same is true for gmail.

I've just looked at a list of all members whose registered addresses are with gmail and there looks to me to be fewer than a dozen who regularly post on the forums.

There's a complication - one of our key moderators is registered with gmail - but I'm reasonably sure that he and the other gmail-registered users would understand and accept our need to bar gmail address.

Bob C

[tilski]

Hi Bob,

I can see why you'd want to ban these web addresses but I'm with Hotmail and still log in fine. Am I right in thinking that only new members won't be able to use these addresses.

Also, I think a lot of people have Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail accounts because they are the most kept accounts and most accessible from anywhere. Since joining this forum some way back I have shed at least 4 ISP's. That's why I like using my hotmail account for forums etc etc.

But like I've already said I can see that you want to stop / reduce the spam factor.

Is there a note to new members stating that these email providers are banned?

If not would it be valid to have a paragraph on the login / sign up page.

O and I hope you're fine Bob. It's been a while.

All the best

Til