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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
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Silly situation but there's a forum I used to be a member of. It then changed to using only "non-free" email addresses ie not hotmail/yahoo etc, and banned everyone. To reactivate your account, you have to supply a non-free address. They check each email address AFAIK, so going with an obscure free one isn't an option. Any way I can get round this but still remain anonymous? Giving my ISP's email address has the surname in the bit after the @ (eg joe@bloggs.ISP.com). _________________ He fights for the users.
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| Sat Oct 22, 2011 8:04 pm |
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TheFrenchun
Officially Mrs saspro
Joined: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:55 pm
Posts: 4955
Location: on the naughty step
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Quit the forum? Seriously.
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm
Posts: 5836
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I'm tempted to agree tbh. _________________Jim
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
Posts: 7173
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WTF is the point of that? 
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
Posts: 10022
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Yeah at the moment, I've just given up. Was wondering if there was a way around it all.
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| Sat Oct 22, 2011 8:41 pm |
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TheFrenchun
Officially Mrs saspro
Joined: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:55 pm
Posts: 4955
Location: on the naughty step
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Use an old uni address that transfers to a gmail account?
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
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Old uni address would have been great but it expired about a year after I left uni.
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm
Posts: 5150
Location: /dev/tty0
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I'm sure one of us could give you an account on a hosting package somewhere? I can right now, but PM me and I'll try and set something up for you tomorrow 
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tombolt
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:38 am
Posts: 2967
Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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The easiest solution would be to buy a domain for a couple of quid and use that.
Along the lines of what ben's saying, I have a reseller account so I could give you an email address. PM me if you're interested Can't do anything before Monday pm, so if you're sorted by then no bother.
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm
Posts: 10691
Location: Bramsche
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Why did they do that? Here in Germany, a lot of people only have "free" e-mail accounts.
The entire family here only have Yahoo! accounts, for example, they do not have access to any other e-mail account.
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
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I really don't know why. I guess they must've had a lot of problems with scammers and spammers.
Thanks for the offer tombolt, I may welltake you up on it!
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm
Posts: 45931
Location: Belfast
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All my accounts have been free down the years (like many I suspect). They're a bit crap at times, but that's only because their owners can't leave the fcuking thing alone...
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
Posts: 8767
Location: behind the sofa
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You can have an @yourwired.net forwarding account if you PM me what you want and where to point it. That's my domain with my name all over it, so only if this forum isn't something really dodgy  _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
Posts: 10022
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Not a dodgy forum at all, which is why I was surprised.
Forquare's offered me one email address, which I'll test out. If it gets rejected, then I'll try the other offers.
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| Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:20 pm |
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
Posts: 10022
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Just to update: It seems to have worked so far. I've asked one of the mods to see if they'll re-enable my old account or not.
Thanks fo the help guys.
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