Why is my account not activated

[infrequent9]

Can any admin tell me why my other account is not activated yet ?

It was registered May 08 and thus even before the one I'm using now.

Nothing is wrong with the email-address as I got the Welcome message ok.

Thanks in advance.

-infreq

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----- Original Message -----
From: <forumadmin@anime.net>
To: <infrequent@mail.dk>
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 10:06 AM
Subject: Welcome to banimod / etpro / ettv forums Forums



Welcome to banimod / etpro / ettv forums Forums

Please keep this email for your records. Your account information is as follows:

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Username: infrequent
Password: xxxxxxxx
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Your account is currently inactive, the administrator of the board will need to activate it before you can log in. You will receive another email when this has occured.

Please do not forget your password as it has been encrypted in our database and we cannot retrieve it for you. However, should you forget your password you can request a new one which will be activated in the same way as this account.

Thank you for registering.

--
Thanks, The Management

[jinx]

Good luck sorting through the spam on that email address now

I don't have a solution, but it may not be the greatest of ideas to post real emails in messages. I'm not sure if bots can crawl into threads, I'm sure they can.

[bani]

mail.dk is a freemail provider, and freemail accounts are not allowed on the forums.

[Lagger]

mail.dk is owned by tdconline, a danish isp. they do not offer free email accounts.

edit:

ok, i looked into it: they DO offer freemail, and even worse, it's not restricted to mail.dk
in fact, it includes:
privat.dk
direkte.org
events.dk
familie.tele.dk
firma.tele.dk
fritid.tele.dk
lite.dk
loveletters.dk
mail.tele.dk
ny-post.dk
nypost.dk
os.dk
paradis.dk
pc.dk
plakaten.dk
post.tele.dk
postkasse.com
postkasse.net
postkasse.org
privat.tele.dk
rudekuvert.dk
sport.dk
surfmail.dk
surfpost.dk
undermaatten.dk
webhiker.dk
besked.com
beskedboks.dk
business.tele.dk
c.dk
cafeer.dk
chicks.dk

problem is, you can't tell whether or not the owner of the account is paying the isp or not. since the same names are available to paying customers.

how many people on this forum does this affect?

[bani]

http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/freemail.html
http://www.hol.dk/nyheder.asp?nID=6728

https://registrering.tdconline.dk/eserv ... ?CDID=free

this is a pretty dumb policy for tdc to have, it only ensures they will get widely used for spamming and blocked.

the forum blocking here is not retroactive, it only affects anyone signing up for new accounts since around dec 2004.

[Lagger]

fwiw, freemail accounts offered by tdc no longer has pop3 or imap access, it must be accessed by internet explorer with some ActiveX plugin.

oh and that second link made no sense at all

[bani]

fwiw, freemail accounts offered by tdc no longer has pop3 or imap access, it must be accessed by internet explorer with some ActiveX plugin.

oh and that second link made no sense at all

[quote="<a href="http://www.hol.dk/nyheder.asp?nID=6728">that second link</a>"]Kommentar #31
tb^ (Mega Supporter) skrev 18-02-2004 kl. 23:16:40:

#26 : mail.dk - mail.com - ofir.dk - jubiimail.dk søg evt. selv på google.com efter "free email accounts"[/quote]

[infrequent9]

mail.dk is a freemail provider, and freemail accounts are not allowed on the forums.

mail.dk is definately not a freemail provider ! It's an address from the largest internet and telephone company in Denmark called TDC. I pay for their services and also for the email-address and their SPAM-filtering etc. As far as I know you can NOT create a mail.dk account without having a subscription with TDC.

EDIT: Ok, maybe they do. But I'm one of the paying costumers.

BTW.... this account is registered on "post.tele.dk" which is just another email-address at the same provider.

-infreq

[infrequent9]

this is a pretty dumb policy for tdc to have, it only ensures they will get widely used for spamming and blocked.

I've used the mentioned account for years and have it registered at about 20-25 Forums. This is the first place I've had trouble with it.

-infreq

[infrequent9]

Good luck sorting through the spam on that email address now

That's no problem. It's all filtered out by my ISP

-infreq

[gotenks]

BTW.... this account is registered on "post.tele.dk" which is just another email-address at the same provider.

you do realize you just gave him another address to add to the ban list (won't affect you but won't let anyone else from there register)

[Lagger]

you do realize you just gave him another address to add to the ban list (won't affect you but won't let anyone else from there register)

are my posts invisible?

oh, and bani don't mind my pop3 imap blabbering, my mind was somewhere else...

[gotenks]

you do realize you just gave him another address to add to the ban list (won't affect you but won't let anyone else from there register)

are my posts invisible?

oh, and bani don't mind my pop3 imap blabbering, my mind was somewhere else...

no, but you didn't have that 1 listed and he SOUNDED like he was trying to be smug

[Lagger]

it's just like bani's second link up there, you just didn't look close enough

[=FF=im2good4u]

i know the feeling even my normal isp e-mail is on that list