I am such an idiot

Today I did kind of a dumb thing. I read the message from Ed Zotti, telling everybody to change their passwords ASAP. Like the brain dead idiot I must be, I thought you couldn’t change your password unless you changed your e-mail address too. So I put down a different e-mail address and submitted the modification, then realized two seconds too late that I no longer have access to that e-mail account! As a result, I was forced to re-register to this MB.

I will just go sit in the corner now with a dunce cap on my head.

Shadowfox
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Welcome newbie!

You’ll find most of the people here are nice but there are a few that will take advantage of somebody’s stupidity.


If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

But here’s your chance to pick a whole new identity! Think of the possibilities!
How about “Board Crasher.” You will be inundated with posts asking you how you did what you did.

ROFL Pluto! SF, can’t you get a mod to help you out here? I’m sure that kind of thing is within their powers, no?


What I tell you three times is true.
The Hunting of the Snark.
Lewis Carroll

Um, what message from Ed? I never saw a message from Ed. I’m using my old password, and it’s working. Do I need to change my password? Why?

:::joining Shadow in the corner:::


Changing my sig, because Wally said to, and I really like Wally, and I’ll do anything he says, anytime he says to.

Newbie! Newbie! I will have you know, young man, that I have been frequenting the SDMB since the AOL SDMB days.

Of course, if you are kidding (my humor detector is malfunctioning today), then bite me

http://204.95.48.199/ubb/smile.gif


Shadowfox
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Cristi, here is the exact quote from Ed Zotti’s message:

I don’t have the inside story on this, but it sounds as if maybe somebody possibly hacked into the system and maybe obtained the user passwords. I can’t think of any other reason why they would ask everybody to change their passwords immediately.


Shadowfox
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Shadow, I just had a little trip on the clueless bus here, and was just shy of doing the same thing. I shot my 500 post wad trying to figure out something simple. Sigh.

Shadow, don’t feel bad, I did the exact same thing when I first joined SDMB… of course at the time I was a newbie, that is to say more newbier than I am now.

Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.

Elelle, I had almost 600 posts under my old SN. Now I have to start all over again. It took me 11 months to get that far. I don’t know if I have the patience to spend another year on here, trying to rebuild my post count again.

Shadowfox
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Hook, line aaaannnddd sinker!!

It’s okay, The_Poster_Formerly_Known_As_Shadowfox, we all know you are older than dirt.

But Demo’s probably right. I’ll bet with a little groveling you can get your name back.

Shadow, can ya put em in yer sig line?

You mean my old post count? Sure I can, no problem at all.

Shadowfox
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584 posts under my old SN, so don’t you dare call me a newbie!