# Is it safe yet? (password/email change) **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 23, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-yet-password-email-change/99735 "2002-03-23T19:28:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-yet-password-email-change/99735/1 "2002-03-23T19:28:32Z")
Is it safe yet to change our email and passwords? I saw a post saying not to but nothing saying the situation had cleared up. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-yet-password-email-change/99735/2 "2002-03-23T20:33:26Z")
I assume that we can’t ask jdavis until next week during business hours. But we’ll try and find out for you. In the meantime, do those by e-mailing an administrator. It has been pointed out before that if you’re not logged in you cannot bring up a staff member’s profile. You can find TubaDiva’s e-mail address at [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com) (search for TubaDiva). Additionally, even if you are not logged in, you can bring up the web page for a poster. If you click on the www button under one of my posts you will go to my (rudimentary) webpage which has at the bottom my e-mail address. As a matter of fact I will go add this information to the announcement about changing e-mail addresses and/or passwords. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-yet-password-email-change/99735/3 "2002-03-23T20:40:14Z")
Thanks Arnold! ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-yet-password-email-change/99735/4 "2002-03-23T20:45:23Z")
Instead of putting it in the announcements I added information about how to e-mail some of the administrators in the ATMB FAQ thread. ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-yet-password-email-change/99735/5 "2002-03-25T08:36:43Z")
just checking to see if i can still post, please ignore ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-yet-password-email-change/99735/6 "2002-03-27T15:30:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pezpunk \* > Is it safe yet to change our email and passwords? I saw a post saying not to but nothing saying the situation had cleared up. My understanding is that jdavis has not confirmed yet that the problem is gone. So if you do a username/email change, and don’t get the confirmation email back, you will have to contact an administrator. See the ATMB FAQ on how to do that if you can’t look up staff member profiles. Also since we don’t know how reliable it is yet, please keep changes to the minimum necessary. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-yet-password-email-change/99735/7 "2002-04-01T00:25:44Z")
While I hate to bug, my email address listed in my profile is wrong, and it’s already come up as a problem for me twice. Is it safe to change it yet? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-yet-password-email-change/99735/8 "2002-04-01T07:06:16Z")
White Lightning - you can change it, but you won’t be able to post until you receive the confirmation e-mail, and the confirmation e-mail might get hung up in the system. Go ahead and change it and let us know if you don’t get the confirmation e-mail after a several hour period. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-yet-password-email-change/99735/9 "2002-04-01T10:54:44Z")
Smooth like butta. Thanks, **Arnold Winkelried**.