Banned Email?

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Some advise please,

I'm trying to change my forum account email to an @googlemail.com address.

I sent an email to the admin, who ever that may be, and haven't had a reply in weeks.

Are these addresses allowed?
 
Clearly they are not as you've seen that it's not allowing you to use it. Most other free email services are blocked as well. They want you to use a more permanent address like the ones most ISPs give to their customers.
 
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That's understandable.

The whole reason i started using googlemail is that when i change ISP's, which i do a lot, i don't have to go round 10's of forum accounts changing it to the new one.

Guess i won't be able to for this one...
 
.edu addresses are allowed. There are a few universities around that have open email systems where non-students can get .edu addresses. You might wish to give it a Google.
 
Just for the record, the majority of ISP's still allow you to use the email service even after you've left. I still use my Lineone, now Tiscali, email address and I left them well over two years back.
 
for signing up you have to use a work/educational/personal/isp based email - we do check all registrations and reject any that are from what appear to be webmail addresses (and add them to the banned list).

For changing email addresses after registration you just have to avoid the banned list (which grows on an almost daily basis) - one that will be valid if we need to contact you at some point (otherwise a 24-48 hour suspension gets changed to "meh, let them contact us" status when we get the bounce).
 
cant you just simply buy a domain name you like, register with that and have that domain point at whatever email provider you like? the extra advantage of this is, you can register at forums with your cool personal domain email address, and if you ever have to change email provider, you can simply change where the domain routes emails to, instead of having to change the address on tons of websites.
 
Dist said:
cant you just simply buy a domain name you like, register with that and have that domain point at whatever email provider you like? the extra advantage of this is, you can register at forums with your cool personal domain email address, and if you ever have to change email provider, you can simply change where the domain routes emails to, instead of having to change the address on tons of websites.
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This guy has the right idea :p

Although I just point the mail at my own mail server instead.
 
What is the reasons though behind having such and such a ISP related email. Why not just any email. Perhaps I am missing somehting, just not sure why you cant use, google or hotmail etc ?
 
Magic_x_uk said:
What is the reasons though behind having such and such a ISP related email. Why not just any email. Perhaps I am missing somehting, just not sure why you cant use, google or hotmail etc ?
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BillytheImpaler said:
Most other free email services are blocked as well. They want you to use a more permanent address like the ones most ISPs give to their customers.
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Basically if someone registers on the forum with a web email and they get banned they can simply register with a new web mail address. With ISP EMails they're usually permanent and hard to change :)
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Clearly they are not as you've seen that it's not allowing you to use it. Most other free email services are blocked as well. They want you to use a more permanent address like the ones most ISPs give to their customers.
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My hotmail address has been far more permanent than any other Ive used and is my top method of communication... more people mail me than call me :( . Ive had it over 6 years which is far longer than any work or other related email address Ive had...
 
Plus I know plenty of people who only have a hotmail address as there form of email.

No disrespect to OcUK owners, but it is only a web forum. Not the secret code for fort knox. Not that I care, I use wanadoo.

I Just like to understand reasoning behind things at times.
 
basically, when you ban someone and find them trying to reregister 5 minutes later with (yet another) webmail address it becomes rather annoying and boring.

The current policy slows it down a bit, as most people will have access to some form of non webmail address, but not hundreds of them.
 
Although to be fair most ISPs I've been with allow users to create and delete email aliases as required, making them as easy to abuse as hotmail.
 
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