Kuro I'm not trying to flame you here but I have some proof.Originally posted by Kuroshio
I've pretty much stayed out of this topic so far. Felt the heat coming off it 6 subforums down and said not on my life. But this statement I couldn't pass up.
I've had a forums account at AOVault and AO Basher for longer than I've had an AO account, since they were operating before AO was. I think I might even have a Stratics account as well. I've never in all that time received a single spam email I can begin to track back to any of those sites. And I'm fairly proficient at backtracking spam email. So if they've sold my email address to someone, they've been extremely subtle about it.
As for this particular move, well quite frankly it sucks things that would get me banned for repeating
Moderators on a fansite have 0 liability for their actions. People at an official site have to answer for their actions eventually since they have the official endorsement of the company. If Solarax or Nevver go ape**** one day (not saying they, specifically would but those are mods I can name off the top of my head), there's nothing that can be done about it.
And there's the whole argument about hopping all over the web for information. I do that enough whenever Funcom gives sneak peaks at stuff, trying to collect all the information. Having to do it for regular stuff just isn't my cup of tea.
Back while I was playing DAoC, I used the IGN boards because there is no forum support for DAoC by Mythic.
Needless to say, I decided to use my AOL email because I never use the account.
I'd never used the email to register ANYWHERE before. In fact, before registering with IGN with that email account I never got any email to it.
Now, I did that back in May of last year. Within two weeks I started getting spam...., and even physical mail to my physical address that was addressed directly to me.
Here is a picture of my AOL Email Box now....and I've never used it for anything...I've just kept the account as a dial-up back up if I'm traveling.
There were 124 messages in my box. All of it spam, with the possible exception of the one message that appears to be from AOL....but really isn't. After I checked it...it was just a false email name sending me more spam...the body content of the email was inviting me to come see "LIVE NUDE COLLEGE GIRLS" on their webcams.
Now...thats 124 messages. But if you keep in mind that I logged into the account last Friday because my wireless was on the fritz and deleted 297 messages. Thats 400 pieces of SPAM in less than a weeks time.
And the only place I ever used that email address at was....you guessed it Camelot Vault IGN so I could use the Nimue(RP) forum.