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All the AMA said was, "give us a e-mail address" so they can finish processing the paper work. Use anybody's e-mail who cares. They never said he had to have one in his house, just any one. It's a requirement live with it.
You are entirely correct. There are more than a few ways to circumvent the requirement and not hold up a club charter.
The other side of the coin, though, is that someone in AMA thinks that they're building this nice communications network where they can easily and rapidly contact SO's at clubs all across the country. That's not happening when they are supplied "anybody's email", or an email that was set up for an SO that doesn't have a computer.
By holding up a charter to get "anybody's" email address they are essentially torpedoing their own system. It's a GOOD idea, but POORLY implemented. Why not just recognize that there is going to be a small number of SO's or clubs that don't do email, and say "OK, give us a phone number instead" rather than "OK, you don't get a charter"? Wouldn't that make more sense?