Mike Phillips
Aug 31st, 2005, 03:59 PM
Confirmation E-mails
The problem with you and others receiving forum e-mails is a by-product of all the spam sent by the nefarious people in the world. Thus legitimate e-mail is sometimes never received.
Part of my job as an Admin on the forum is to monitor all new registrations and manually finish the registration process as I see new people register because of the above problems. I do this all day long. If I'm away from my computer for any length of time at all, 10 minute to 10 hours, the first thing I do is check the Admin panel and process new accounts so that people can begin posting as I know some don't get their confirmation e-mails. In fact, I just checked the Admin panel after returning from lunch and confirmed two new members.
Even if you have not received your confirmation e-mail, because I continually confirm registrations manually throughout the day, go ahead and try to REPLY to the sign-up thread of your choice, or to a thread on the forum, chances are you'll be able to post to the forum just fine.
Just to note, last week I had an e-mail similar to yours and I sent an e-mail to the person’s two different e-mail addresses. One got through, the other didn’t, so I don’t know the cause of all these problems but I have learned that e-mail isn’t perfect and it's not always the senders fault. Different ISP's use different filter systems and until a better system is developed we'll probably always have these problems.
We apologize that the system isn't perfect but as we can make improvements we do...
The problem with you and others receiving forum e-mails is a by-product of all the spam sent by the nefarious people in the world. Thus legitimate e-mail is sometimes never received.
Part of my job as an Admin on the forum is to monitor all new registrations and manually finish the registration process as I see new people register because of the above problems. I do this all day long. If I'm away from my computer for any length of time at all, 10 minute to 10 hours, the first thing I do is check the Admin panel and process new accounts so that people can begin posting as I know some don't get their confirmation e-mails. In fact, I just checked the Admin panel after returning from lunch and confirmed two new members.
Even if you have not received your confirmation e-mail, because I continually confirm registrations manually throughout the day, go ahead and try to REPLY to the sign-up thread of your choice, or to a thread on the forum, chances are you'll be able to post to the forum just fine.
Just to note, last week I had an e-mail similar to yours and I sent an e-mail to the person’s two different e-mail addresses. One got through, the other didn’t, so I don’t know the cause of all these problems but I have learned that e-mail isn’t perfect and it's not always the senders fault. Different ISP's use different filter systems and until a better system is developed we'll probably always have these problems.
We apologize that the system isn't perfect but as we can make improvements we do...