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Users Awaiting Email Confirmation
09-19-2007, 10:15 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 51  | Users Awaiting Email Confirmation How long do you keep "Users Awaiting Email Confirmation" waiting? Do you delete their accounts and if yes, after how long time?  | ||||
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09-19-2007, 10:19 PM
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Title: Forum Enthusiast
Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 2,478 Location: Alabama   
| I don't require Email Authentication. I wouldn't delete them though if I did. | ||||
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09-20-2007, 12:28 AM
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Title: Administrator
Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA | ^^ Same as above...Don't require email verification, but if I did, I wouldn't delete unconfirmed addresses. What does it harm? The only thing that I can think is that it occupies a username for an account that may be used...And there may be active users who would like that username. But, on that token, inactive accounts do the same thing, and I don't see the reason in purging them either. We probably have 3k-4k very inactive accounts here at AF, but it doesn't harm anything.
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09-20-2007, 07:44 PM
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 Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 161 Location: Scotland 
| I have email comfirmation but I do not delete the unactivated accounts. Every few weeks I send out a mass mail to all unactivated accounts saying that they are yet to activate. | ||||
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09-20-2007, 09:00 PM
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Title: AF Lead Developer
Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,186 Location: OHIO, US
| I used to delete them for the simple fact that on one of the forums I ran ppl would forget they signed up and never activated and then would think their nick was taken so would create another.
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09-21-2007, 04:07 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 51 | Quote:
I don't approve them because I want all members to have active email accounts to be able to stay connected whit the forum. This is one of the ways to keep their interest alive IMO. Another thing is that I hate to see bdrtyjk@nuydzu#ad.com emails. Some people use them just because they think that are more smart then the other members. | |||||
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10-02-2007, 02:55 AM
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Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 346 Location: Indiana | Coming from someone who DOES use them... This is what I do. Every once in a while I check them. I don't delete any members ever, but if their email is something like a @ a.com or something, I ban them. They know they're supposed to give a valid email address. If it's a real email, I put them in the members group and send them an email with their login info. If they can't get the email 'cause of a wrong address, I can't really do anything about it. ~Crystal
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I just need to find the time to do it lol 
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