Question about CC and FBTB

[Medievalego]

Does anyone know why Classic Castle and From Bricks To Bothans forums do not allow registration to people with "free email accounts," such as gmail.com, aol.com, hotmail.com, and yahoo.com?

Is there any way to get around this?

I'm out of school and don't have a work email address. Also, aol used to cost money ... it's not my fault it stopped costing money after I'd already been paying for it :)

I just don't feel like starting to pay for domain space just to get another email address for this: and it's nice to have all email come to one address.

Anyway, there's nothing wrong with this forum, but I'd like to be able to post at all three.

Any ideas / info would be appreciated, thanks much!

[gylman]

I understand they had issues with spammers. Some malicious ones too. Hence the policy.

I had the same registration problem with CC last year. I frankly don't care to give out my private account, which is also attached to paypal and ebay, to anyone except family and close friends.

I guess they have their policy, and I have mine.

If you sent them a personal request, maybe a reference from someone you know in the Lego community, I suspect they would be OK with it. At CC anyway. I can't say much about FBTB.

To this day I have not registered at CC, even though I took part in their castle contest last year.

EB has all I need though. It's not like I have time to participate in more than one good Lego forum.

[Vader]

Here's a question: Why would you want to join them when you can join us? X-D

[hollisbrick]

yea same i had the same problem. but im glad it happened because it made me join EB (which is far far far better!)