I recently bought a SIG 226 so I figured I might join up at SIGforums.com. Unfortunately, it won't let me register. It says that my email is banned. I am confused about that. I have never been on SIGforums so I haven't done anything to be banned. I have never been banned on any forum for any reason. It does say on the registration form that Hotmail and Yahoo addresses aren't allowed, but I'm with AOL (yeah, I know, but I've had them for years and I don't want to make sure everyone I know is notified that my email address is changed) and they don't have anything posted to suggest a problem with AOL. I've tried with some of the sub-account email's I have on AOL as well and all are banned. I'm very confused. Since Hotmail and Yahoo mail are banned I can't open an easy web-based account to open a membership.
I wanted to contact the administrators to find out what is going on and to see if it can be fixed, but there is no contact info on the site. To get the contact info for a moderator or administrator through their profiles you have to be logged in as a member. So, I'm pretty much frozen out for no apparent reason and with absolutely no recourse.
Can anyone here help me? Are AOL addresses banned there, even though they don't state that and do state that others are? Can someone think of another web-based free email service other than Hotmail and Yahoo Mail that I could sign up with? All the other services I used to know about have since been bought out by Yahoo or Hotmail. Can you get me the contact info for someone there who I can email and find out what the problem is? Are you a mod or administrator there who can do one better and help me out here?
I'm actually pretty annoyed about this situation since I've never done anything on any forum to be banned, I've never even been a member there, and there seems to be nothing set up there to rectify such problems! If it didn't look like a pretty good forum for SIGs and if I didn't just buy a SIG I'd probably be annoyed enough to not want to have anything to do with them.