Nevyn Anderson wrote:
Hi,
I have registered twice (yes twice), using different browsers and two different (legitimate, in
daily use email addresses but to no avail. I still have not received the
crucial confirmation
email to allow me to enter the forums.
1) registered under:
legbiter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2) registered under:
tillitbreaks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I tried legbiter again, but, (and this is the bit that is so funny it makes you
feel like shooting
something) it informs me that that username is already in use - Probably
because I registered with
it 4 hours or so ago. But it is not activated because I haven't received the email.
I have sent an email to the administrator, (not using Outlook, even though the
link opened it for
me, because I have NEVER ever used Outlook, and it is going to stay that way).
No reply has been
forth coming.
Frustrating, frustrating, tell me about it. I have a problem with OOo, but
cannot get into the
forums to post / discuss it. I can't get into the forum to tell anyone that I
can't get into the
forum.
Thanking you in advance,
Nev
From the fact that you are talking about usernames ("legbiter" and
"tillitbreaks"), it look to me like you are trying to register for the
*web forum* at www.oooforum.org. Unfortunately that * web forum* has
nothing to do with this *mail list* and we can't help you. Some of the
people associated with this list are currently trying to contact the
administrator of the forum because, believe it or not, you are not the
only one to experience this problem and the frequency seems to be
growing of late, although that is probably of little comfort to you; sorry.
You are not registered for this list. You may continue asking questions
(and providing answers if you like) but (a) you will, I think, get "nag"
messages about not being registered and (b) possibly not see some
messages because the sender didn't include your e-mail address
explicitly in his/her message. Both these "problems" will disappear if
you register (the process works!) *but* be aware that you will then
start receiving many (up to about 100) messages *per day*. Depending on
your level of interest in OpenOffice, many of those might be dross and
you might think being registered is not worth it. As an alternative to
cluttering up your mail inbox you can read this list's messages as a
*news* feed by pointing your news (NNTP, not RSS) reader at
news.gmane.org <nntp://news.gmane.org> and subscribing to
<nntp://news.gmane.org>gmane.comp.openoffice.questions
<http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.openoffice.questions> .You can read
this news group without a registered e-mail address but you can't post
to it.
As you found this list you presumably also found that you can search its
archive. I'm not sure what's in the forum that isn't in that archive.
Personally I rarely go to the forum but, of course, others have the
right to disagree and, in any case, I think you can search it without a
registered address (I may be wrong there; if so, sorry).
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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