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[dave.m]

Sex offenders' e-mail addresses are to be passed to social networking sites like Facebook and Bebo to prevent them contacting children.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7328170.stm

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she accepted such a scheme could never be "completely foolproof".

I'll have a pint of what she's been drinking.

She is going to lull parents and children into a false sense of being secure and protected.

 Sex offenders should be rotting resting in a comfy cell with NO computer nor internet connections, and with their dangley bits resting in a specimen jar 200 miles from the owner.

That way you don't have to worry about email addys.
dave 

[oldfogy]

I read that also, but the impression I got was that the email addys would be going to the people responsible for running the sites to check against it's members.

[dave.m]

Phil,
I got that idea too, but how easy is it to set up another email account/web mail account! 
It is clutching at straws and almost a total waste of effort.
dave

[guest]

What's the point of that? I can get as many domains as my wallet can cope with and given you can easily anonymise the ownership of .com domains I don't see how this can ever work.

It is nonsense spoken by fools who don't know or care what they're on about as long as it sounds good.

[oldfogy]

Dave, Rizla.
Very true, not forgetting Hotmail and Gmail are totally free to set up.

[Floydoid]

Not only is it easy to get a new email (and I guess most of us have more that one addy), ithe internet allows you the opportunity to hide behind a totally different persona (if you want to).  Not to mention using proxy servers to cover one's tracks.

However did that woman ever get to be home secretary?

[Pwiggler]

my thoughts exactly ..... i actually thought i had missed something with it being such a mad idea !!

[kitz]

sheesh -  someone really doesnt know the reality of the internet do they?

As if someone registering on that type of site with less than pure intent would use their real email address anyway.

Reminds me of a report I made to another site where multi-iders were running amok las year.. 
and the answer came back from a certain Administrator that "They cant be the same person because they signed up with different e-mail addresses".   
I think thats was the start of loosing all faith in what was supposed to be a Computing + IT site.