The Gang of Five
Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Fridge => Topic started by: pokeplayer984 on January 01, 2008, 02:29:57 PM
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Okay, today I decided to finally become a member of the forums at ScrewAttack.com. So I went and put in all the information needed, set it up to my needs, blah, blah, blah, and I click the Register button.
However, it then says that my e-mail address has been banned. WTF?
I've NEVER attempted to become a member of that forums until now and they tell me that I'm banned for something that would make me have to be a member before? WTH?
Could someone please get to the bottom of this for me? It's driving me nuts!
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I've just tried two of my e-mail addresses wtih the same result. I don't believe it's anything we did, and or anything they suspected. It could be a problem on their end, something faulty with their registration system.
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Or they've read about you and blocked the email you use at other forums... :unsure: :blink:
That's a scary thought, but I could block an email from being used on here if I wanted to. I'm pretty sure its a bug on their end.
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Sounds like either a bug in a program or they went to ban a certain email and made a mistake and banned a lot or a programming bug ended up banning a lot.
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I found out what the problem was, Pokeplayer. I did a search in the ScrewAttack forums and found a topic about one guy claiming his friend couldn't register because his e-mail account was banned even though he never joined (sound familiar?).
Well the reason wasn't because of an error as I thought. Since Yahoo and Hotmail accounts are abused by spambots, they've decided to ban all hotmail and yahoo e-mails. Registering with a gmail address should work.
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I found out what the problem was, Pokeplayer. I did a search in the ScrewAttack forums and found a topic about one guy claiming his friend couldn't register because his e-mail account was banned even though he never joined (sound familiar?).
Well the reason wasn't because of an error as I thought. Since Yahoo and Hotmail accounts are abused by spambots, they've decided to ban all hotmail and yahoo e-mails. Registering with a gmail address should work.
Got any good places where I could set up such an e-mail in mind? :)
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Google will probably work. I think that's what gmail is. And it's an e-mail address that is accepted on the forums. So maybe you'll be able to register if you get a Google e-mail address.
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogi...plcache=2&hl=en (https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%3Fhl%3Den%26tab%3Dwm%26nsr%3D1%26ui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl<mpl=default<mplcache=2&hl=en)
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Gmail is awesome! Almost 6gb of space for messages and it grows every second. Just go to gmail.com and look at the amount of space you've got. :D It also loads the message windows around 5 times faster than yahoo, hotmail, lycos, and several others I've tried.
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Is gmail finally out of that beta they've been in since I joined years ago? I could send you an invite if that's still required.
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Oh yeah, gmail is way passed the beta stage. First you needed invites and then you needed to have a code sent to your cell phone. :rolleyes: What a pain in the butt. It's awesome now. You can sign up in five minutes and you don't need to pay anything or get invites anymore. :D
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Well, I'm finally a member of the ScrewAttack Forums. Thanks for all the help, guys! :^.^: