Re-registering

[AB Editor]

Hi,

Anyone who was involved in that UserId thread of a week ago - you'll know which one if you were - please drop me an email and ask to be un-registered. You will then be able to re-register with the same email address but with a different username.

Unfortunately, we will not be able to allow you to keep your old username.

For added security, could you please also remember to create a difficult password, one that contains digits/letters/symbols. And please, do not give out your registration details, including UserID.

Our Technical Team is reviewing the recent "imposter" situation, but unfortunately stuff like this happens on the web, which is why we have to be careful with sharing our personal details.

Happy Monday to the lot of you!

AB ED

[dotjhawkes]

Don't want to tread on your toes AB ed but my Q 159098 in CB contains the list of users that posted on that thread, if you don't mind it being put up, if you remove this I understand,

cheers

dot

[THECORBYLOON]

dot it may be that not everyone on the list has been "cloned" and may not want to be registered again.

ABE If the system can detect the user's IP address could it not also detect it is different from that used before? If a user was somehow able to use another's userID they would have a different IP address to the real user and could be prompted to give the password which only the real user should know.

[january_bug]

Hey ABE,

I'm suggesting to users that we just ignore the blatant imposter(s), or, if especially bored, play along with them until they get bored.

It's not a very technical solution, but it might just work.

I'm sure everyone will be grateful of your work here! :-)

Would it be worth us registering all the names similar to our own, just in order to protect them, or would that cause you problems?

[aka pixi]

aww i cant seem to log in as pixi, even though my posts are still there :(

[gen2]

TCL, I don't think the IP address is necessarily a foolproof way of identifying a user because I understand that many Service Providers have a pool of IP addresses for dial-up users and allocate one at random as members log on. You will keep the same IP address during one session, but not from session to session.

[THECORBYLOON]

gen2 I thought that after I posted. I know it's a pain but what about having to use a password every time you log on?

[AB Editor]

Hi,

Thank you all for your comments. Indeed the IP Address solution has its own loopholes. As mentioned earlier, what you all should do as is the case in any website you use, be it a banking site or online store is: Create a unique/difficult password and change it on a regular basis; Do not share any of your personal login details; Log out of the site after each session.

And yes, as Jan_bug recommends, ignore blatant troublemakers, they are all over the web and need no extra encouragement.

Thanks again for Reporting posts that do not adhere to our Site Rules.

AB ED