Problem with registering

TrishoHara · Post by **TrishoHara** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:41 pm

Hi,
a friend of mine - Username Jake, of the Palace Guard - is trying to register since weeks. He tried it several times, but never got the activation email. He even emailed some admins here but didn't get a response yet.
Do you know what he could do else for finally being able to become a member here?

thanks
Andi

TheOrk · Post by **TheOrk** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:15 pm

Does he have a hotmail account? That might be it because it happened to me once.

TrishoHara · Post by **TrishoHara** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:00 pm

TheOrk wrote:Does he have a hotmail account? That might be it because it happened to me once.

No, he uses an email address from a not-free-email account from his old school. He is a long member from fbtbforums, and there you can't use any email accounts like hotmail etc.

Post by **SavaTheAggie** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:00 pm

If he's been sending mail to my C-C email address, then that would explain why he's received no response. Troy hasn't gotten around to re-activating my email account after the server died.

I'll private message you with an email address at which he can contact me directly.

--Anthony

Jake, of the Palace Guard · Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:29 am

It's all sorted now, thank you.

TrishoHara · Post by **TrishoHara** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:37 am

sorry for reactivating this thread. But there are still problems with registering.
What advices do you have?

thanks
Andi

Post by **architect** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:04 pm

In order to remove the large number of recent spammers, we did a "fall cleaning" of the userlist that removed all members who never completed registration through the confirmation email. Please register again with your old username and try adding a different email address (and do not use hotmail.com) If you still have problems, please send Tony or Troy a pm. Thank you.

Ben

kelderic · Post by **kelderic** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:49 pm

Why can we not use hotmail? I have had to start up a new account at yahoo just to register here.

Kelderic

Post by **architect** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:52 pm

kelderic wrote:Why can we not use hotmail? I have had to start up a new account at yahoo just to register here.

Kelderic

Far too many spammers attacking this site use hotmail accounts. By not allowing them, we significantly cut back on spam. Plus, hotmail has a poor interface. It was great 8 years ago but not now. I suggest using gmail or some other improved email.

Ben

Lamanda2 · Post by **Lamanda2** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:48 pm

architect wrote:In order to remove the large number of recent spammers, we did a "fall cleaning" of the userlist that removed all members who never completed registration through the confirmation email.

Ah, I had just looked at the ammount of members and saw that SillyBilly, the newest member, was member number nine-hundred, it confused me for a bit because I remember the one-thousandth member topic. I figured you must have cleaned out a few members. (That must have been quite a chunk of work to get rid of over one-hundred members

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architect wrote: Far too many spammers attacking this site use hotmail accounts. By not allowing them, we significantly cut back on spam. Plus, hotmail has a poor interface. It was great 8 years ago but not now. I suggest using gmail or some other improved email.

Yes, we had the same problem over at MCN with spamming members and Hotmail accounts, now ever since the Admins banned them there seems to be quite a decrease in spammers.

~Amanda

Post by **Troy** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:10 pm

There is also an issue with how our DNS resolves (or doesn't resolve) that causes some e-mail servers to reject all messages from CC as spam. I am working on getting this fixed.

Troy

TrishoHara · Post by **TrishoHara** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:14 pm

Thanks for your answers. I'll pass this on and hope that it works now.

kelderic · Post by **kelderic** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:11 pm

architect wrote:Far too many spammers attacking this site use hotmail accounts. By not allowing them, we significantly cut back on spam. Plus, hotmail has a poor interface. It was great 8 years ago but not now. I suggest using gmail or some other improved email.

Is is possible to let registered users switch to hotmail, but not let new members, "spamers", join using it?

Kelderic

Post by **architect** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:49 pm

kelderic wrote: Is is possible to let registered users switch to hotmail, but not let new members, "spamers", join using it?

Kelderic

It is not possible. Having more than one email address is a positive thing.

Ben

kelderic · Post by **kelderic** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:13 am

architect wrote:It is not possible. Having more than one email address is a positive thing.

Dang. Well, I thought I'd ask. Thanks.

Kelderic

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