Tomanbeg
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Joined: 7/14/2000 From: Memphis, Tn, CSA Status: offline
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Originally posted by Charles_22: Is the Age of Lurkers upon us? I ask this because though I'm not a heavy email user, I just leave my email address when registering, with just one or two places, and suddenly I fairly beseiged by junk mail. I block those senders and they just seem to shift to another address the next time they come around (stupid things like get your PHD. now, etc). This is a problem, because it seems more and more that websites are requiring email addresses as mandatory to register, and frankly I'm sick of garbage email.
Unfortunately it seems Wargamer has email address as part of the mandatory requirement, which interestingly enough I was actually going to register with them today, because I did have something of a somewhat different angle I wanted considered. I'd also like to point out the Wargamer went belly up to an extent when they changed their web design the last, or next-to-the-last time. I frequently go there to get news on RGW and a few other things, but unfortunately the members dropping off the face of the earth, and the email address requirement have left me shying away.
You need what I call an registeration account. Being a certified Microsoft basher. I use hotmail.com. It's cheap(free), and if Microsoft can't afford the bandwidth, good. I'm encouraging registration under the name Jean Theurel. He was a french soldier who joined up in 1699 at the age of 15 and retired in 1802. He fought in over 100 battles and I keep looking for his name on my roster every time I play the french. As long as the zip code matches the state you are registered. I use the address of what ever bill has just arrived. This way everybody is happy, the spamers have an address to send to, Hotmail gets hits and you don't have your e-mail box cluttered up with junk. If we can get enough people using Jean's name he can be immortalized. T.
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