[gambit-list] Gambit wiki account creation

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Jun 2 09:15:13 EDT 2011


On 2011-05-31, at 10:51 AM, John Velman wrote:

> I'm a bit confused.  I seem to have been caught/lost in the changes.
> 
> 1. Some time ago (late March?) I had registered (my iMac
> keychain was holding a user name and password).  Between vacation and other
> activities, I didn't have much time for Gambit until last weekend.
> 
> 2. On Saturday I tried to sign on, and the Wiki said there was no such
> user.
> 
> 3. I tried to re-register, and after 15 minutes or so of typing in the funny
> letters, I gave up and wrote a nasty email to the funny letter people.
> (By the way, someone should write a pattern recognition program to help us
> with these funny letter things which are becoming ubiquitous :-)
> 
> 4. Later, still on Saturday, I tried to re-register again.  This time I succeeded
> on the first try.
> 
> 5. I was never asked for a biography, or if so I missed the asking.
> 
> 6. I've never received the email confirmation code (as far as I can tell),
> but when I press "confirm email address", it says "A confirmation code has
> already been e-mailed to you;"  I checked my spamprobe file and it's not
> there, either.
> 
> So I seem to be half in and half out.
> 
> I don't know if this is because of my carelessness or a system error.
> If my carelessness, please accept my apology for the long email.  But I
> would like my email address to be authenticated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John Velman

Could you please try again?  I changed a configuration which I think will allow more than one request to be outstanding.  I don't have your name in the request queue, so I can't accept it or delete it!

Marc




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