Thanks Sven. I know she didn't answer my questions, but it seemed good enough to me. And as I stated previously, we can go round and round for months attempting to analyze what they meant when they wrote this or what they meant when they said that, but to what purpose?
Which takes me back to the phone conversation I had. Now, I can't reproduce a phone conversation here, but I can relay what I was told. I was very specifically told that VOIP was considered a third party add-on, that its use in game violated the terms of use, the reason was because it allowed people to bypass the chat filters, and that all of that was to protect the children--the reason there are chat filters in the game in the first place.
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...5&postcount=73
So, I know what I have been told. I know I have relayed the information to POF. I know that my motives for sharing this info is and was for the safety of children playing and not for my own personal preferences or for my own benefit. Do with it what you will.