A Totaly Different Type Of Overbalancing Machine

[Low-Q]

To, Low-Q,
               You've deffinately got the right name ----- but you missed the 'I' out!
I am NOT a spammer, and I do NOT sell your email addresses ----- to ANYONE!   END OF!
I'm trying to HELP others, not ANTAGONISE them!
SPANG,         Bill.

Sorry. My mistake. So many new members are yelling out amazing solutions, working devices etc., but we never hear from them again.
Again, I am very sorry for this big mistake. You are welcome to share your thoughts and ideas, and I will gladly help you out if you have any questions.

Br.

Vidar

[SPANG]

Low-Q,
         I accept your apology!
Just to put matters straight though, I'll tell you ALL this;
I am NOT a 'new' member. In fact, I've been a member of this forum for many years, but something
happend ----- I moved house!
Because I moved house, I also had no choice but to change my service provider!
As a result, I had to re-apply for membership to this forum.
I also had to change my 'user' name ----- I guess that's why some of you think I'm a new member!
I must admit though ----- I very rarely pass comment on the work of others.
Hence, the lack of knowledge of my existance ----- on your parts!
I am a member of many other forums as well ----- mostly under different names!
All I ask for, is constructive criticism.  For me, "It won't work", isn't good enough.  I want to know
WHY you think it won't work. This type of reply, will help me (as it will others,) to give me/them,
the oportunity to put matters right.  Whether I/they succeed or not, is another thing ----- but at
least there'll be bullets in my/their guns!
BILL.

[Mr_Video]

Because I moved house, I also had no choice but to change my service provider!
As a result, I had to re-apply for membership to this forum.
I also had to change my 'user' name ----- I guess that's why some of you think I'm a new member!

Um, unless I missed something,
Changing ISPs has nothing to do with your user account here,
or on any other site in the internet for that matter .

[mscoffman]

Um, unless I missed something,
Changing ISPs has nothing to do with your user account here,
or on any other site in the internet for that matter .

@Mr. Video;

Actually…It’s slightly more complex then you indicate. Because very
often the BBS server wants to verify with your e-mail-address-of-record
before it will change the BBS account in any major way. Most people
when they are new get an e-mail with their ISP, and so use that as
their e-mail-address-of-record. Usually when you change ISP’s or
leave an institution it becomes almost impossible to have the old e-mail
address reestablished. Hence the catch twenty-two situation and
need to apply for a new user name. But I agree with Sprang, his user
ID was not new.

Reality is always somewhat more complex than theory, that’s what
gives me hope for FE solutions.

:S:MarkSCoffman

[Mr_Video]

@Mr. Video;

Actually…It’s slightly more complex then you indicate. Because very
often the BBS server wants to verify with your e-mail-address-of-record
before it will change the BBS account in any major way. Most people
when they are new get an e-mail with their ISP, and so use that as
their e-mail-address-of-record. Usually when you change ISP’s or
leave an institution it becomes almost impossible to have the old e-mail
address reestablished.

What you say up to this point is correct,
but there is no "Catch-22" situation that I have ever heard of,
I just changed the E-mail on my account, and I was never asked to verify it, but some forums do require verification to change an E-mail, and on the forums that do, the E-mail verification always gets sent to your new E-mail address, and maybe a notice may go to your old E-mail (for security reasons) .

When you change your E-mail, a forum does NOT depend on verifying your old E-mail, that would be insane,
because EVERYBODY would have to re-register if they change ISPs, and I have never even heard of anyone having to do that before now, and I've been on the 'net for a long time, and I am an admin on 2 other forums .

I have two friends who recently moved and we all belong to 3 different forums, and they never had to re-register on any of them . lol