Confused

[Yaesu]

Ok, I'm intrigued, but I am also very, very confused. Please bare with me while I explain.

I am assuming that there is a way to play via AOL. This is why you are all putting you're AOL tags up, and this is ok with the moderators?

I ask that last part because while I was researching this topic, the one sticky makes this action seem ban-able, yet the next seems to support and even encourage it.

I'm sure I'm just misreading something, but this kind of sounds fun, and I'd like to give it a try, but have no idea how. (And I differently don't want to cause any problems.)