ATTN: Before you register...

[Gaelen]

Registration in this forum requires a valid email address which will accept email from the Protein Power server.

If you have a spam filter from your email provider (Earthlink users, this means YOU!), you MUST add the address forum@proteinpower.com to your address book.

If you are having difficulty with your registration, please click the 'view forum leaders' link at the bottom of the main web page to find the administrators' email addresses, and contact one of us.

NOTE: This forum is regularly 'spidered' by web search engines. The main forums are NOT private or restricted in any way. Please choose your user ID carefully; you can NOT use your email address as a user ID.

In our efforts to control spam on the board, no one may register on these forums with an email address from an email clearing house, such as but not limited to:

cashette.com
dodgeit.com
freefreemail.info
gawab.com
giza.cc
mail.com
mail.ru
mail333.com


This is only a partial list and is updated frequently. If you're not sure whether your email address is an email clearinghouse, please contact an administrator or moderator and ask.

Email clearinghouse addresses promise centralized spam free email. Since they do not respond to emails from the Protein Power server, IDs that try to use a banned clearinghouse email address are now prevented from registering on this forum. Existing IDs that list banned clearinghouse email addresses have been deleted for providing a false email address. When a newly-registered ID refuses email from the server, an administrator will check the address--if it leads to an email clearinghouse, that address will be banned and the ID deleted. If you want a free email address with good spam and virus control, check out yahoo.

[Gaelen]

Due to an increase in spam attacks on the forum, all new users are now placed into a moderation queue. You will still receive a registration email which you must verify to confirm registration, but no posts will be published to the forum until an administrator verifies that the post is spam-free. Once an admin removes your ID from moderation, you may post to the forums as a registered user.

In some cases, this may result in a brief delay between your registration confirmation and the first time which you may post. We know this is inconvenient--but without the moderation queue, spammers can join, view the member list information and flood the forums with spam within seconds of confirming their email address. Hopefully, the moderation queue will keep everyone's browsing experience safer and more pleasant. Enjoy!