First of all, I'm not stopping Boing Boing -- I just said that goofy anonymous flames make me want to.

Second, creating a throwaway Hotmail account for the express purpose of receiving *one* confirmation email from QuickTopic doesn't expose you to spam, since you only have to look at the account once after creating it.

Third, wrt "It assumes goodwill on the part of the administrator:" I'm not the administrator, QuickTopic is. QuickTopic's privacy policy says that I can't get your email address, which means that I can't discover who you are.