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Freedom of expression is not the same as anonymity. What you're asking for is an anonymous account, which CP allows for viewers/readers only. This access is for both their forums and articles. What you cannot do is post anonymously. For this you have to create an account.
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Without a way to identify the user the doors are wide open to spammers, perverts and idiots.
I have a site and I used to have a comment section so people could comment on my articles, without signup or any kind of ID...yeah I know stupid right, I was young(ish), naive and trusting. The number of links to porn, adverts and just plain filth got unmanageable and now I don't do comments at all.
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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You can read articles for free without having a login.
You cannot download code zip file for free without a login. But there is a workaround for this too. You can go to Browse Code for that article, see the listing of all source code files there, and select-copy-paste to your workspace. Do this for all files listed, update your own project with these source files, build and run. All of this without a login. What more do you want?
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One thing I keep seeing/hearing: people keep insisting on "freedom", but never mention that with such freedom there is equally as much a need for responsibility.
And let's face it, what kind of developer are you if you don't have email? One of the most basic forms of communication, as well as providing a basis of identity.
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you sure got everyone stirred up. Which I believe was your intent. You are enjoying watching everyone get stirred up. Congrats on you. You are nothing more than a troll. I almost feel sorry for you. Just stirring the pot.
Are you really accomplishing anything in life?
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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No email? How do you do anything without email? 
Do you also not live in a house for privacy reasons?
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Sander Rossel wrote: Do you also not live in a house for privacy reasons?
Trolls do in fact live under bridges.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Name one forum like this site that allows posting anonymously. You're not going to find one because doing so opens the site up to be completely overrun by spammers.
Or did you not think about that?
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In the name of 'freedom' perhaps you should put up your own website and allow anonymous postings. 
Freedom without accountability leads to anarchy.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Some of the replies here are reminding me of Wart’s lessons on government from Merlin in TH White’s “The Once and Future King” which I read 45+ years ago.(it is a little foggy)
The ants were pretty prescient.
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No, it should not be, which is why it isn't.
When joining an established community, one must obey the rules of that community.
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Would it help if Bob painted his face blue and wore a kilt?
Freeeeeeedommmmm!!!!!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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You're right, it's not free, as in you ain't free to be an a**hole here.
But it's free in other regards, like be a valuable resource that doesn't cost you a penny.
Between you and me, nobody really like the freedom to be an a**hole, you know.
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To some (many?), freedom (as in freedom) means "no rules". That's not "improving" things.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Your concern is about giving out an email that can somehow be abused. Temp email IDs are good for some things but not all (as in this case.)
One option you have is to purchase a domain - let's call it myfree.com. Now set up a "catchall" account - so any email sent to an email that ends with @myfree.com is received by that account.
When you sign up at any site, use the site name as the recipient - so CodeProject@myfree.com. Or StackOverflow@myfree.com, etc. This has multiple benefits:
1) If a site makes your email available to others (intentionally or otherwise) - you can just block emails sent to that address.
2) If someone hacks the site and gets your email - see #1
3) You can always remember the email ID you used for a site.
4) Unless someone knows that you have a catchall account, no one will associate one email ID with another - especially if you don't set up a web site to go with it (or set up a fully bogus one to further confuse.)
5) You can especially use this for financial or similar sites. Then you know if you get an email sent to anything other than Chase@myfree.com it is definitely NOT from Chase bank.
So this provides you with the benefits of the temp emails you like with the obscurity you desire (and some additional benefits too.)
Just a thought.....
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Linescio ?
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Phew !
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Oh, I do hope not ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I love the obvious ones…
And the CCC was good too!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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To be fair, it was a beautiful clue.
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I am offended ...
That my dirty mind got the solution immediately.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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