There is a thread made by the admin. Basically the rIU servers cannot handle sending out a newsletter to every account, so they are contracting a very big advertising company to handle the email newsletters. They are then as a result going to use the opportunity to "prune the forum" of these dead accounts even though with the newsletters ebing sent from another server, it doesn't really matter if these accounts are still active. They say though that unless you agree to hae your email released to this company, then your account is gone. Doesn't matter if you don't want the newsletter or not (would make sense to actively subscribe to it, not by default, this would have removed this entire issue on it's own) if you don't do it you get the boot as they can't be arsed to go through keeping individual accounts. Coupled with the admins insistence on getting twitter added, the digg link ability etc, theya re after advertising money, whether this is a vaild need, or just they feel like more money, not for me to say (i know if it's because they require the money, they could simply fix the elite members subscription)
I have no issue with giving them a fake email address, but i won't out of principal, a. because i should not be forced into doing this under threat of deletion and b. becauise where is the common sense in doing all this up to lose some fake accounts on the RIU server, when the means to do it is to promote users to create a false account on some guys mail server instead.