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Originally Posted by Arsenal  If you're talking about the UMS forums, they don't allow registration using e-mail addresses from "free" email servers (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc). It's not specifically your email address.
They claim it's because of issues they've had with spam and fraud in the past; I don't necessarily think it's the best way to go about preventing those kinds of things, but it's their site to run, I suppose. |
I run into that problem all the time with gun forums. I think in theory it's to prevent spam from anti-gun activists, etc, but it's really just paranoia.