I want to give everyone a quick heads up that as of the end of the 1st June 2007, anybody with a 'free' email address in their profile will have their account suspended from posting or viewing the GWW Community until that email address has been changed to something other than hotmail, gmail, yahoo, msn or one of the other 'free' web based email providers.
The reason behind this is that recently, more and more 'bots' are registering using these free web based email addresses and rather than wasting my time going through hundreds of fake accounts by hand, its a lot easier for me to just remove the ability for people to register and use one of these types of email addresses in their profile.
I realize that this is going to cause a problem for some of you however, im sure you can appreciate this isnt something that is happening on a whim, in fact, i have been manually removing these bot accounts for the last couple of months as they have been registering and it has just gotten to the point now where it has become counter-productive for me to continue doing so manually, hence why no free web based email addresses will be allowed in your profiles.
I mentioned this to someone earlier today who has a Hotmail address in their profile and they came back and told me that they didnt have, or couldnt afford to register a domain name and have a host setup an email address for them, if this may be the case for you, then ill tell you the same thing i told this person on ICQ, you are in the wrong business.
If you cant afford to spend $10 or less for a domain name, and $10 a month for a basic entry level hosting plan, get out of the industry now, you are destined for failure.
Again, for any inconvenience this may cause any of you i am truly sorry however, i have much better things to do with my time than fight a losing battle against board bots registering fake profiles so they can habitually spam the community forums.
Regards,
Lee
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