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We have made all users without a email address in their profile, unable to post until you provide a email address. This mainly applies to all AOL users that had their email addresses removed a few weeks ago. Many have not taken the time to enter a VALID, non-AOL address. You must go to your user CP and enter a valid non-AOL email address. If you attempt to enter a AOL address, a "Banned" error message will appear! An email confirmation message will be sent to the new address, and you MUST click the reply line or you will not be able to post. If you do not see the confirmation message at the new email address, check the Spam folder and allow mail from NLOC.net...the system does send the message to your address.

WHY WE HAVE BANNED AOL EMAIL ADDRESSES!
AOL is the problem, not us. AOL has listed the NLOC as a Spammer because of our forum automatic email (thread subscriptions, pm notifications, email for other board users, etc.). When AOL lists us as a spammer and bounces all of the email going to AOL addresses, we get hundreds of emails bounce returns per day and the board user does not get the mail destined for their acccount.

We have contacted AOL and tried to resolve the problem multiple times, and they chose to continue to change our status each time. This not only the NLOC forum's problem, but many other large forums are experiencing the same trouble, and taking the same steps to no longer allow AOL email forum addresses.

We have suggested Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail, as just a few of the services that offer free email and do not automatically classify large forums as Spammers.

Thanks,

...Dwight...