# Please be sure your email is up-to-date

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-be-sure-your-email-is-up-to-date/337807>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 31, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-be-sure-your-email-is-up-to-date/337807 "2005-12-31T01:56:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-be-sure-your-email-is-up-to-date/337807/1 "2005-12-31T01:56:12Z")

</div>

Please, be sure that the email in your registration is correct.

First, it’s a violation of our rules not to have an up-to-date email address in your registration. And second, we sometimes do want to get in touch with by email – for example, I’ve wanted to thank several people who reported bad posts, and I find they have no valid email.

So, please check, OK?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-be-sure-your-email-is-up-to-date/337807/2 "2005-12-31T07:28:56Z")

</div>

Just finished checking. Mine is a-okay.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-be-sure-your-email-is-up-to-date/337807/3 "2005-12-31T13:57:48Z")

</div>

Glad to hear it, but there’s no need to reply to a general announcement.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-be-sure-your-email-is-up-to-date/337807/4 "2006-01-12T16:29:52Z")

</div>

If you do correct your email address be sure you get the confirmation email the system generates (just like when you first registered). All address and password changes generate this move; the system pulls your registration out of the member database and stores it in a security holding queue. While in the holding queue you can read the board but not post.

The confirmation email directs you to a url. Going to that url moves your registration back into the member database and all privileges are restored.

Be sure to check your spam filter; these days, that’s where that email tends to go.

TubaDiva