I also have spent a little time on the other Forum (piggy) and the people I have PM all said their email addresses would not be accepted on this forum.
I tell everyone that PMs me to come here to see the real stuff. Mike; this is just their reply. In no way am I commenting about the tight ship you run. I feel safe on this forum which is more that I do on t'other one.
gerry
Gerry, I've no problem with them staying away because they don't want to use the e-mail address provided by their ISP. I always have to laugh when I get their e-mails, complaining that I will not accept Yahoo or Hotmail registrations. "This is the only e-mail address I have," is a common complaint. I have 22 active e-mail addresses, only 3 of which are freebie accounts and only 1 of them is on Yahoo. I have a couple of other freebie addresses that I do not use for anything other than anchors for some analytic scripts.
Here's how it works. They try to register and ignore all the warnings and notices about Yahoo and Hotmail addys not being accepted. Then they e-mail me at this domain to ask why. I reply to their e-mails and never hear another word for a week or two. Then I get another e-mail asking me why I haven't responded to their earlier complaints. See why I don't accept Yahoo and Hotmail? Both of those services aggressively filter incoming messages, without any user input. And when it is pointed out that most people struggle with computers, they think the only messages in a Junk folder are the messages they have placed there. Wrong, again.
I tried working with those two e-mail providers and here's how that worked. People would register, the software would send them the confirmation e-mail to complete their registration and their provider would filter it as junk mail. After 2-3 minutes (you think I'm joking, don't you), I would get an e-mail, griping they had never received their confirmation message. I try to help people as much as possible, but when someone has no basic understanding of how something as simple as e-mail works, I just do not have time to hold their hands. I used to spend a couple hours a day, trying to walk people through the freebie e-mail services, helping them find filtered messages.
I've jumped through all the back room hoops I am going to jump through. I've set up DomainKeys, I've set up SPF records and it will work in some instances and not in others. Bottom line? Ees not my problem.
If someone is so frightened about their primary e-mail address might be discovered, they need to disconnect every cable from their computer, throw it out the window into the driveway, drive over it repeatedly and then bury the broken remains in a concrete and lead-lined vault, at least 20 feet deep.
If someone is too blinkin' lazy to register a GMail account to use for registration here, that's fine with me. I figure they're too blinkin' lazy to participate on the forum and I'm not out a damn thing. And just to be quite clear, if GMail ever gets as stupid as Yahoo mail, I'll block that service too.
I recently had a fellow e-mail me from one of the two blocked providers, but his IP address resolved to a Verizon Broadband address. I suggested he just use his Verizon e-mail address. His response? He had never set up a Verizon e-mail account. And you know, he was right, because Verizon sets the accounts up when an account is created. Until Verizon sold my account to Frontier, I was a Verizon Broadband customer for a bit over eight years, so I know how their system works. I don't know much, but I do know this - you can't fix stupid.
A week ago, I had a member contact me via the tracker, saying, "why have I been blocked from this ,,iv [sic] asked many times " One minute later, he sent me an e-mail. His message said, "i'v [sic] asked in many contact areas, why im [sic] locked out from posting ???" Exactly two minutes later, he e-mailed me a second time. This message said, "im [sic] locked out from posting an no one will tell me why ?"
Three messages in the span of three minutes.
And please note, he offers exactly zero details. But I'm expected to give him a fix. I checked his account and there is no reason this individual cannot post to the forum. I explained in the Tracker that I was going to need to know where he was unable to post, how his posts were being rejected and the content of any error messages he might be getting. That was a week ago, mind you. It was such a catastrophic issue it required three messages in three minutes. And I've never heard back from this person. :smashpc: Can you imagine how quickly I'm going to jump into fixing his problem, if he ever comes back?
Someone tell me what's wrong, my car won't start. I need an answer, right now! Fix it for me. Why won't it start?!?
How do you diagnose this problem? Particularly when I haven't told you anything?
I can't make everyone happy, all of the time. I accept that. I don't even bother trying to accomplish that impossible goal, as it's nothing more than a setup for certain failure. I do the best I can do, for the greatest number of people. I know, that leaves some people with their knickers in a knot, but such is life. I'm not perfect and I don't care to be perfect. The last guy that was perfect got nailed to a tree, mind.
