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[marko]

Unfortunately, our old email problem has surfaced once again although we feel now that the main bulk of the issue seems to lay with the email holders themselves.   Many members have chosen to sign up with "throwaway" email accounts and simply abandon them which now means when freewarebb send emails to members we are receiving a whole heap of NDR's which is clogging up our systems.   Therefore, we now have no alternative but to mark these accounts as "Email Bouncers" which means they will be excluded from future emails from us and the member accounts themselves will be highly limited on our site.

We are limiting these accounts purely for safety reasons as when people use "throwaway" email accounts it could be they simply don't know whether the site they are signing up for will spam them or it could be for other, more sinister reasons (i.e. they intend to spam the site).

If you find that your member account has been marked as an "Restricted" incorrectly, unfortunately there is little we can do about it as we have went to great lengths to ensure our site remains in line with the policies of all email providers and ISP's and we feel we have done all we can therefore future email issue's will need to be addressed between yourself and your own email provider or ISP.

It is regrettable that we have to take this action although we simply do not have the resources or time to constantly battle with everyone's email systems in an environment where legitimate websites such as ours cannot compete against the ever increasing and changing policies put in place by the big email providers who, in our opinion, are doing more to dissuade the good guys than they are to fight to spammers.

Over and out!
Marko