Account Security Suggestion.
A little over a year ago when Blizzard was requiring everyone to sign up for a battle.net account I got the brilliant idea to sign up for a G-mail account that would specific to my battle.net account and used only for that purpose. The uniqueness of this is that I never get mail from Blizzard and in total I have had 5 e-mails in the last year and they all centered around a couple of times when I canceled and reactivated the account. Note, the only people that have the e-mail address are me, Blizzard, and maybe my wife but that is it and I don't use it for anything else. The kicker to this whole thing is that for about the last six months my primary e-mail address (an AOL account I have held for something like 12 years) has been bombarded daily with spam e-mails from hackers who would like nothing better than to steal my account information and have me running around naked for awhile. I promptly forward all of these to hacks@blizzard.com and even after doing this I get more and more everyday. After viewing some of these messages I could see how somebody my get confused and mistake these for official correspondence and log on to a hacker site, thinking it was the real thing.
My suggestion for any new people coming on, and even some of you old dogs who have been playing for years and just never considered it, would be this. Go on over and get you a G-mail account (or really any other free service like that) that will be used specifically for your Battle.net account and use the e-mail address for only your Blizzard activities. This way when you happen to post something on a WOW related website that you have linked to your primary e-mail adress and some phisher comes along and starts sending you hack e-mails, you'll be better prepared to know it is fake and go ahead and send it off to hacks@Blizzard.com. Lengthy message, but account security is important and thought i would share this with the group.
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Well there's your problem...
Your using AOL.
Seriously, Gmail is awesome and should be used for all accounts. I use Gmail as my primary account and currently have it as my battle.net account as well. I was already planning to make a secondary account to switch my battle.net account to before RealID started, as I'd rather give out a secondary e-mail to people on the internet instead of my primary.
A couple things I'd like to add here for those setting up a gmail account:
First, you can link multiple Gmail accounts together. So you log into one and can view emails from all, and send e-mails from any. I currently have 3 linked accounts, one's more casual, one's more professional, and the other is dated but I have no reason to get rid of it.
Secondly, you can add '.' to your various gmail account names to help identify where you gave them out. For example, if you have the gmail account 'KimJongIll@gmail.com' you can have the account 'KimJongIll.Spam@gmail.com' for websites you don't want e-mails from, and 'KJI.Bnet@gmail.com' for your battle.net account and link it to your primary.
i didn't know about that feature
that's pretty cool.
I control so many domains at this point I can't even keep track of my emails. I have my spam/public ones, my work ones, my personal ones, etc. We use google apps for my work accounts though. I should see if it works with those.
Google help to the rescue
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10313#
The part about dots: (MOAR DOTS!)
There are three common reasons why Gmail users think they're receiving someone else's mail. Please select the description that matches your situation below.
Your address is similar but has more or fewer dots (.) or different capitalization.
Sometimes you may receive a message sent to an address that looks like yours but has a different number or arrangement of periods. While we know it might be unnerving if you think someone else's mail is being routed to your account, don't worry: both of these addresses are yours.
Gmail doesn't recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they'll all go to your inbox, and only yours. In short:
All these addresses belong to the same person. You can see this if you try to sign in with your username, but adding or removing a dot from it. You'll still go to your account.
If you get mail that seems to be intended for someone else, it's likely that the sender entered the wrong address, just like if you've ever dialed a wrong phone number for someone. In these cases, we suggest contacting the original sender or website when possible to alert them to the mistake.
One last thing: Google Apps does recognize dots. If you'd like to have a dot in your username, please ask your domain administrator to add your preferred username as a nickname.
To test
Log into your gmail account with extra dots in the username field so go to gmail and try it. Just like the Homer Simpson example above, using those as your login would all correctly , um, log you in.