Yes, it is fun to read the stuff that goes on over there.
I actually registered using a "free" e-mail account because i don't trust the site owner to keep things confidential. After all, he doesn't even enforce his own TOS. If I automatically get banned, then "oh-well", I certainly won't lose any sleep over it! I doubt they will see a 1 year anniversary......
Here's the e-mail I got:
Dear arceeguy,
RCNitroTalk.com has recently decided to no longer allow free based email accounts. As of October 15, 2002 RCNitroTalk.com will no longer be accepting registeration from free email accounts, if you have already registered with a free email account you will need to change it to one that is not a free email account.
RCNitroTalk.com believes that allowing too many users to post in the forum using free email services such as Yahoo! or Hotmail has and will cause several problems. Veterans of any internet forum can attest to this fact. In order to keep our forum honest and friendly, we don't allow people to register using any free email sites.
You must use a "real" email address from your web host
(
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected], the email
assigned to you from your ISP, etc..) If you are concerned about
privacy, you have the option to set your profile to not allow other forum members to view your email address. RCNitroTalk.com does NOT and will NOT give out any personal information about you to any third party(s).
Thank you,