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edshern Special user 957 Posts |
When I try to change my email address I'm getting this message "Sorry, the email host address you entered is currently blocked."
Can you please advise. Thanks, Ed edshern@gmail.com |
Dave Scribner Assistant Manager Lake Hopatcong, NJ 4848 Posts |
This question has been asked many times. The Café will not accept any emails from a free server. Gmail, hotmail, yahoo etc are not allowed. Nor is AOL
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edshern Special user 957 Posts |
Dave, I'm don't understand.
I guess that means that I can not use my gmail address as my profile address? What address would be acceptable. I am looking for a way to be notified when a response is posted to a thread I started. It would be helpful if you wouldn't mind pointing me to a thread where this has been discussed. Thank You. Ed |
Dave Scribner Assistant Manager Lake Hopatcong, NJ 4848 Posts |
Ed, I can't give you an email address. That is up to you but it must be from a paid server. Gmail, hotmail, yahoo are examples of free servers and they are not allowed. The previous discussion have all been the same. The question about free servers was asked and the answer was that they were not allowed.
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edshern Special user 957 Posts |
Dave,
Can you give me an example of a paid server? Ed |
Dave Scribner Assistant Manager Lake Hopatcong, NJ 4848 Posts |
Ed, any internet provider that you pay for is an acceptable one. For instance, mine is dascribner@optonline.net. I pay for optonline service every month. If my email address was dascribner@gmail.com, I wouldn't be able to use it here because I don't pay for it.
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edshern Special user 957 Posts |
Dave, I would be interested to know the thought process behind this.
Thanks Ed |
Andrew M New user 59 Posts |
This policy feels like one that seemed reasonable several years ago, but outdated today. I guess it was originally instituted to avoid people being banned, and then finding it easy to sign up for another account using a free webmail address. I'm not sure how effective this really is - I assume it is based on a blacklist, so wouldn't pick up some the less mainstream free webmail services.
These days are ISPs who don't provide an email address as part of their service, and it is quite normal for people to have a free webmail account as their only email address. It seems unreasonable to penalise them for this, for a very limited benefit. |
Dave Scribner Assistant Manager Lake Hopatcong, NJ 4848 Posts |
The free email address restriction has several reasons but one of the main ones is that it keeps a lot of kids who are just looking for secrets from joining the Café and flooding the forums with posts like "what the best card trick" or "what's the best brand of card to use" or "what are some good tricks". Young kids usually can't afford to pay for an address so their spamming posts are limited.
admcd, it has nothing to do with banned members. Those that are banned usually have no problem getting a new paid address to reregister. And banning has no effect on IP addresses. A ban is only to a member ID.
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hoodrat Veteran user Southern California 388 Posts |
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On 2012-12-11 18:26, Dave Scribner wrote: That's interesting to know. I was banned from a forum about hiking in Death Valley last year. Whenever I use my home computer to try to access that forum, it still says I am banned. When I use my mobile phone to access the same forum, I can get in (because I'm using the phone's 3G network and NOT my home computer's router to access the Internet). I made a new account on that forum using my mobile phone. I now have total access to that forum via my mobile phone. If I try to log in to that forum with my new ID and password using my home computer, I'm still banned. Apparently on that forum, a ban "remembers" one's IP address and NOT the username. Interesting..... |
Dave Scribner Assistant Manager Lake Hopatcong, NJ 4848 Posts |
I'm not the tech person here but we have many members who use the same IP address. I believe it has something to do with whether or not the address is static. For example, when aol was being used, it was not unusual for the IP to have a dozen or more members.
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