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Hello!
Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.
Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....
Please note that the information requested during registration will be used to determine your legitimacy as a participant of this site. As such, any information you provide that is determined to be false, inaccurate, misleading, or highly suspicious will result in your registration being rejected. This is designed to try to discourage as much as possible those spammers and scammers that tend to plague sites of this nature, to the detriment of all the legitimate members trying to enjoy the features this site provides for them.
Of particular importance is the REQUIREMENT that you provide your REAL full name upon registering. Sorry, but this is not like other sites where anonymity is more the rule.
Also your TRUE location is important. If the location you enter in your profile field does not match the location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected. As such, I strongly urge registrants to avoid using a VPN service to register, as they are often used by spammers and scammers, and as such will be blocked when discovered when auditing new registrations.
Sorry about all these hoops to jump through, but I am quite serious about blocking spammers and scammers at the gate on this site and am doing the very best that I can to that effect. Trust me, I would rather be doing more interesting things with my time, and wouldn't be making this effort if I didn't think it was worthwhile.
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| Registration Problems |
When you have completed the registration process, a validation email is sent to your registered email address that contains a link within it that is necessary for you to click on in order to FULLY complete this process. Failure to either receive the message or to not click on that link will leave you in a limbo state where you cannot fully access the site, nor can you re-register using the same user name or email address.
Several things can happen to cause you to not receive this validation email, with the most likely one being that your ISP is blocking you from received some of your email. As an example, EarthLink sends me this sort of message whenever a person using their services tries to register on this site:
This is an automatic reply to your email message to xxxxxx@earthlink.net
This email address is protected by EarthLink spamBlocker. Your email message has been redirected to a "suspect email" folder for xxxxxx@earthlink.net. In order for your message to be moved to this recipient's Inbox, he or she must add your email address to a list of allowed senders.
Click the link below to request that xxxxxx@earthlink.net add you to this list.
Unfortunately, I do not have the time nor inclination to followup on this sort of thing, so you will not be able to complete the registration process because of your ISP. Personally, I would be quite irritated at my ISP taking it upon themselves to decide which emails I get and which ones I don't, but you can handle it whatever way you think is best. There are quite certainly other ISPs that do this sort of thing, which is quite unfortunate, because in some respects their cure for SPAM is as bad or even worse, then the disease itself.
So be aware that if you don't get that validation email that you may want to discuss this issue with your ISP to see if that SPAM blocking mechanism they are employing is optional. There may very well be other emails you would perhaps wish to receive that they are taking upon themselves to keep from you. |
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