And I just top posted, like a fool. On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 5:41 PM, David Kaylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. >> >> >
