# PVonAtark is dead... Long live PVonAtark!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pvonatark-is-dead-long-live-pvonatark/24482>\
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**Created:** [July 3, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pvonatark-is-dead-long-live-pvonatark/24482 "2000-07-03T21:46:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ambumax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Ambumax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambumax)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pvonatark-is-dead-long-live-pvonatark/24482/1 "2000-07-03T21:46:22Z")

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Greetings and Salutations. I am the poster formerly know as **PVonAtark**.

You may not remember me, (heavens know I didn’t say much) but I used to be known as **PVonAtark**. A fatal crash necessitated that I restore my computer to factory defaults. As a result, I lost my (horribly cryptic) password. Rather than try to recover my old and seldom used screen name, I have chosen to return as the Mighty Ambumax.

To the Administrators,

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I no longer have any use for the **PVonAtark** persona. Please feel free to disable him forever. I would have contacted you via email but the addresses in your profiles just appear blank to me. I hope that you will accept this post in lieu of such notification and forgive my (very temporary) existence under two screen names.

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For those that are curious. Both screen names are derived from D&D characters that I used to play. Ambumax was actually rolled randomly.

Thank you all for your time.

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**Author:** ![Wood\_Thrush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@Wood\_Thrush](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wood_Thrush)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2000, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pvonatark-is-dead-long-live-pvonatark/24482/2 "2000-07-04T00:34:35Z")

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Here’s a tip:

To get rid of your “horribly cryptic password,” go to profile and change what is in the password feild. Type in something that is easy to remember but hard for others to guess. I’m not sure if that works after the update, but that’s how I changed mine.

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**Author:** ![Ambumax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Ambumax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambumax)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2000, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pvonatark-is-dead-long-live-pvonatark/24482/3 "2000-07-04T01:40:08Z")

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I don’t think I could change it without being logged in with it in the first place. Of course that would be difficult since I don’t know the password anyway.

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**Author:** ![Show\_Biz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Show\_Biz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Show_Biz)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pvonatark-is-dead-long-live-pvonatark/24482/4 "2000-07-04T02:14:12Z")

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There’s also a “Lost password?” link wherever the login messages are. Too late for you, though. Welcome aboard Ambumax 🙂