Wow, with a name ending in Morozov, you sure doth protest to much. On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Daniel Micay <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 26/07/15 04:01 PM, Igor Morozov wrote: > > > > That's right, I messed up. Instead of typing fastmail.com, I typed > > fastmai.com. And now there is no way I can access my account. The only > > option is to send an email to this mailing list describing my problem > > and hope that somebody will help me out. Basically, that's what I'm > > doing right now. > > Okay, so it can ask the user to provide the same email in two fields. > > It could treat an unconfirmed account as a temporary placeholder and > replace it if registration is done again for the same username. > > It shouldn't be possible to log in without confirming the email unless > all of the actions (voting, submitting packages, commenting, etc.) > beyond editing account information are gated on whether the account is > registered. > > > People tend to make mistakes. I'm not the only one who messed up during > > registration. And there is no easy way to get our account back. Mailing > > list is not the best option for account recovery. What if the misspelled > > email exists and the owner decides to proceed and register? What if the > > owner decides to do nasty things using my username, full name and email > > that looks alike? That would affect my reputation in the community since > > it's difficult to prove that I was not the bad guy. > > The usual "account activation" prevents this stuff. A lot of web sites > > do not automatically log user in after account confirmation, so it kind > > of prevents malicious activity (the bad guy doesn't know the password, > > you see). > > Someone could have just created a fake account before you did, so it's > really not an issue related to the confirmation design. > > > And by the way, the fact that you can use an unused (not registered) > > email in account recovery and not get any errors is frustrating. Took me > > 8 hours to realize that it says "okay", even though the email is not in > > use. Please, do something about it! > > Emails aren't received instantly, so there's no error to report during > registration. > >
