At the time of registration for this forum, everyone is advised of a confirmation e-mail that will be sent to the e-mail address supplied during the registration procedure. That confirmation e-mail contains a link that each new member must click on, in order to complete the registration process and fully activate their account's permissions on the forum.
Without clicking on that link, the forum permissions are not much different than an unregistered visitor would have.
We try to warn people about registering with an e-mail account with one of the free e-mail services (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.), as these providers will often shunt the confirmation e-mails off into a junk folder, never to be seen again. And without clicking on the link in that e-mail, these new members cannot post in the forums, cannot use the Private Messaging system, cannot set up blogs, cannot use the photo gallery, cannot upload avatars, etc.
We realize many people will register for a forum, just to discover if there is something else to be seen as a member and when they realize there is not, they leave the forum to never return. There are some that register, fail to
confirm their e-mail address, see they have nearly zero forum privileges and leave to never return. There are those that register, never confirm their e-mails and cannot understand why they have no privileges, but continue to visit the forum anyway.
We want each new member to complete the registration process, so they can fully participate in the forums, but doesn't always happen.
We currently have sixteen members that have yet to confirm their e-mail addresses. Several of these members registered months ago and have never returned. We are going to start a process of pruning these members from the database after 60 days of inactivity, so if you see your registered username in red below, action needs to be taken within the next 72 hours. For those usernames not in red, this is a reminder that you need to verify that e-mail address with us, otherwise you will find your own account being pruned at some point in the future.
We want to make clear that we are not going to be pruning fully-registered members from our database, just those that have failed to complete their registration process.
425Olds registered 1/03/07, last active 1/03/07 - deleted 11/23/07
Baxter registered 9/28/07, last active 9/28/07 - deleted 01/10/08
boogyboogies registered 7/03/07, last active 7/03/07 - deleted 11/23/07
brecht63 registered 9/16/07, last active 9/28/07 - deleted 01/10/08
bucketfan registered 12/06/06, last active 12/06/06 - deleted 11/23/07
Dano registered 11/18/07, last active 11/18/07
DaveBerkey registered 1/13/07, last active 4/02/07 - deleted 11/23/07
glioce registered 1/27/07, last active 1/27/07 - deleted 11/23/07
rudedudes23t registered 1/08/07, last active 1/08/07 - deleted 11/23/07
Stubbmaster registered 10/28/07, last active 10/29/07 - deleted 01/10/08
trekjensen registered 7/22/07, last active 7/22/07 - deleted 11/23/07
Again, if you see your name in red, you need to click on the Contact Us link, located at the bottom of every forum page before Friday, 11/23/07. Give us your registered username and the e-mail account you used to register and we will manually activate your account. If we do not hear from you prior to that time, your account will be removed and you need to register a new account if you decide to participate on our forums.
For those names in black, we are still awaiting e-mail confirmation from you. If you are having difficulty with the confirmation process, use the Contact Us form for assistance, as mentioned in the paragraph above. Otherwise, your account will be dropped from our database, 60 days after your last recorded forum activity.
We do recognize members will not be checking in here every day, every week, or even every month. However, if a member has failed to complete the registration process and has not logged into the forum for 60 days or more, then we do not feel obligated to carry that account in the database.
Without clicking on that link, the forum permissions are not much different than an unregistered visitor would have.
We try to warn people about registering with an e-mail account with one of the free e-mail services (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.), as these providers will often shunt the confirmation e-mails off into a junk folder, never to be seen again. And without clicking on the link in that e-mail, these new members cannot post in the forums, cannot use the Private Messaging system, cannot set up blogs, cannot use the photo gallery, cannot upload avatars, etc.
We realize many people will register for a forum, just to discover if there is something else to be seen as a member and when they realize there is not, they leave the forum to never return. There are some that register, fail to
confirm their e-mail address, see they have nearly zero forum privileges and leave to never return. There are those that register, never confirm their e-mails and cannot understand why they have no privileges, but continue to visit the forum anyway.
We want each new member to complete the registration process, so they can fully participate in the forums, but doesn't always happen.
We currently have sixteen members that have yet to confirm their e-mail addresses. Several of these members registered months ago and have never returned. We are going to start a process of pruning these members from the database after 60 days of inactivity, so if you see your registered username in red below, action needs to be taken within the next 72 hours. For those usernames not in red, this is a reminder that you need to verify that e-mail address with us, otherwise you will find your own account being pruned at some point in the future.
We want to make clear that we are not going to be pruning fully-registered members from our database, just those that have failed to complete their registration process.
425Olds registered 1/03/07, last active 1/03/07 - deleted 11/23/07
Baxter registered 9/28/07, last active 9/28/07 - deleted 01/10/08
boogyboogies registered 7/03/07, last active 7/03/07 - deleted 11/23/07
brecht63 registered 9/16/07, last active 9/28/07 - deleted 01/10/08
bucketfan registered 12/06/06, last active 12/06/06 - deleted 11/23/07
Dano registered 11/18/07, last active 11/18/07
DaveBerkey registered 1/13/07, last active 4/02/07 - deleted 11/23/07
glioce registered 1/27/07, last active 1/27/07 - deleted 11/23/07
rudedudes23t registered 1/08/07, last active 1/08/07 - deleted 11/23/07
Stubbmaster registered 10/28/07, last active 10/29/07 - deleted 01/10/08
trekjensen registered 7/22/07, last active 7/22/07 - deleted 11/23/07
Again, if you see your name in red, you need to click on the Contact Us link, located at the bottom of every forum page before Friday, 11/23/07. Give us your registered username and the e-mail account you used to register and we will manually activate your account. If we do not hear from you prior to that time, your account will be removed and you need to register a new account if you decide to participate on our forums.
For those names in black, we are still awaiting e-mail confirmation from you. If you are having difficulty with the confirmation process, use the Contact Us form for assistance, as mentioned in the paragraph above. Otherwise, your account will be dropped from our database, 60 days after your last recorded forum activity.
We do recognize members will not be checking in here every day, every week, or even every month. However, if a member has failed to complete the registration process and has not logged into the forum for 60 days or more, then we do not feel obligated to carry that account in the database.