If a name is a combination of letters that does not reasonably occur in the language of the country of origin of the member, the registration will not last.
IE, if your screenname is highly suspicious as computer-in-origin, the registration gets cancelled. Spammers seem desperate to belong to this site, for reasons I do not imagine: I weed out several a day.
If you are a real person and had trouble registering, my e-mail addy is in the ‘contact us’ file accessible on the top row. Write to me and tell me you’re real and you’ll get through with no trouble at all.
“Spammers seem desperate to belong to this site, for reasons I do not imagine” It’s called the Pinocchio Syndrome. The bot want to be a real boy.
It is certainly bewildering.
I found out today that my email account was hacked. Somehow, someone got my password (I NEVER give that out!!!!), and was generating a bunch of garbage mail. I would get responses from mail delivery systems stating that my [SPAM] message could not be delivered. Well, when I found out about that today, I got my password changed (random generation), so it’s not predictable. If any of you received email from me that was suspicious, please accept my apologies, the spam seems to have subsided.
Not that it isn’t good to have a strong password, but are you sure you’re not catching “backscatter”? That’s where they put your account as sender, no matter where they send it from, so you get the error replies.
Didn’t, so we’re good. Glad you spotted it!
@Joe, please check carefully that you haven’t got something like this on your computer, as it might be a way malicious people got hold of your password – as you’re sure you didn’t give it to people. Recently, over 200.000 computers just in Holland were found to be infected with a keystroke-logger virus named Citadel or Pobelka (both names are used, I think one is a name for this type of virus, the other is specific) which for months before its detection sent every keystroke a person typed to a Russian mob, including passwords, creditcards and bankaccounts.
I’ve no idea how worldwide that virus was, but it seems unlikely to have been limited to this country. Here, it was primarily targeted at goverment offices, utilities, hospitals, and large businesses, and people who could be infected through visiting these supposedly trustworthy sites.
Yay! My name still works!
Invader came in Monday so I immediately jumped in. Still waiting for Inheritor and the The Morgaine Saga to arrive.
Thanks for the recommendation on what to read next!
I have started proofing our college’s high school students’ first draft capstone papers. Interesting topics so far with one about stopping malaria in third-world countries. Just started one about the lack of funding for the arts.
I don’t know what the problem was, it was some kind of Trojan, but I did a spyware/malware scan and removal and it seems to have taken care of the problem. I’m still running a separate virus scan on the entire computer, but there were two critical problems which seem to have been the cause of these emails. According to CenturyLink, they believe someone hacked my password, but I really don’t know how they could have. I don’t give it out, and it isn’t something you could easily decipher, unless you knew where to start. It was a randomly generated password, which I have now changed, and it is much, much stronger than before, even though it was still rated strong, this one takes it well over that mark.