I am afraid that I cannot agree with the E-Mail communication between team members. Such communication is clearly cheating.
It was possible for ships to communicate with one another using visible signals (ie. flags),
but such signals were visible to enemy ships as well and could be deciphered. Secret communication via E-Mail does not allow for the possiblility that your signals can be read and interperted by other players.
I don't much care for stats when it comes to playing games, but seeing as how DCR has openly admited that he cheats by communicating in secret with his team mates, his stats for WSIM should be reset to 0 wins.