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Fender Discussion Forum - requires 'REAL' Email adress?!

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WTF is a 'real' Email address?
The most popular Email providers, Yahoo, gmail, etc. aren't viable because they're 'free'...?

This is a first for me.
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What they probably mean is they require a valid email address to which they can send your login details and to confirm that you wish to Opt-In to their forum.
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Thanx, Wiz...

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...but I have many free and certainly valid Email accounts, yahoo, gmail, etc. for them to reach me, non are good enuf for this site.
What are they asking for?
If you have a free site, go to their site and submit it yourself to see what I mean.
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Post by Wiz Feinberg »

Most ISPs will allow you to create additional email accounts for free. Visit your ISP's website and create a new email account, just for that forum. Give them that address. If it starts getting spammed you'll know who to blame.
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Post by Tony Prior »

A valid ( real) EMAIL address is one where they send a confirmation to and you respond thru that EMAIL. The Site owner is securing the base, meaning, spammers / whoever cannot just join the forum and have access to all names and email addresses, it is a low level validated community. The person who wants to join has to respond to a step process before membership is approved. This is common, and becoming MORE common. This is a good thing. It's not about free EMAIL addresses. It's about " are you who you say you are "

More and more communities such as the Telecaster Forum in question are using a validation process to eliminate the riff raff from just logging on and searching names and members for unknown reasons.

IF your EMAIL address is legit and you check it often you have nothing to worry about, you will get a confirmation EMAIL with logion details. The days of just going to a FORUM , filling out a quick form and becoming an instant member are slowly going away.



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Post by Joey Ace »

There are many forums who do not allow you to register with "Free Email Addresses".

I use gMail, and have been denied membership.

I then give them an email from my ISP (sympatico.ca), and all is OK.
Ironically, I never check my email account with my ISP.
I've set it forward to my gMail account.

Another irony is gMail requires an ISP email for you to register with them.
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