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>>     - Registration will capture home address and phone number
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> Home address?
> Hm, I'm affraid, this can hold back people from registering...
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>> David Buck
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> Slawek

You are registering in order to be able to submit images.  My impression 
from the feedback here (especially from Chris Cason) is that he really 
wants to know who submitted the images and is able to contact them later 
for permission for third party use of the images and other things.

I realize that home address and phone number aren't guaranteed to be 
able to locate someone, but it's better than just an e-mail address.

Again, I'll throw the question back.  If you feel that asking for 
contact information would hold people back from registering, what do you 
propose as an alternative?

I'm trying to address two concerns here.  First, for the purposes of 
using the images outside the scope of the IRTC such as CD-ROMS and 
requests from third parties, we need to be able to contact the artists. 
  If we can't contact the artist, then we can't grant certain requests.

Second, by providing better contact information, it becomes more 
difficult (but certainly not impossible) for someone to spam the contest 
with entries from fake identities.  It's easy to get e-mail addresses. 
Someone could submit 10 images (perhaps poor quality or token 
submissions) to 3 contests using fake e-mail addresses for each then get 
30 votes for the next rounds.

Positive suggestions on how to address these concerns would help us out.

Thanks
David Buck

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