# Trying to edit my profile **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 31, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-edit-my-profile/306175 "2005-05-31T03:24:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-edit-my-profile/306175/1 "2005-05-31T03:24:09Z")
The right path is likely clear, but I have not found it. I thought I changed it when I renewed. My new e-mail is [roadrash7056@sbcglobal.net](mailto:roadrash7056@sbcglobal.net). Give me an e-mail ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-edit-my-profile/306175/2 "2005-05-31T14:11:50Z")
User CP \> Edit Profile ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-edit-my-profile/306175/3 "2005-06-02T00:13:18Z")
Very well, I will dig up my password and change it. But did you bother to read all of my very brief post. How about the part where I wrote that I changed it when I renewed. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-edit-my-profile/306175/4 "2005-06-02T00:41:08Z")
> [@Road Rash](#): > > Very well, I will dig up my password and change it. But did you bother to read all of my very brief post. How about the part where I wrote that I changed it when I renewed. Changed _what_ when you renewed? Your email? Uh-uh, that’s a different database. ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-edit-my-profile/306175/5 "2005-06-02T02:40:53Z")
Yes! My e-mail! What part of that do you, or the unobservant mods, makes no sense to you! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-edit-my-profile/306175/6 "2005-06-02T03:00:50Z")
> [@Road Rash](#): > > Yes! My e-mail! What part of that do you, or the unobservant mods, makes no sense to you! The mods have no access to renewal information. None. Zip. Nada. Zilch. That’s been made clear in, oh, about 2,423,643 different threads over the last 15 months. In order to change your email, you must do it through the User Control Panel. Hope that helped, for I shan’t bother dealing with you any more. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-edit-my-profile/306175/7 "2005-06-02T03:53:03Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > 2,423,643 That looks a lot like a Patent number. [It Is a Patent number!](http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=02423643&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPALL%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%2Fnetahtml%2Fsrchnum.htm%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526s1%3D2,423,643.WKU.%2526OS%3DPN%2F2,423,643%2526RS%3DPN%2F2,423,643&PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=906698F4529C) “ **Condensation Products of Guanyl-Urea With Alkylene Oxides** ” Apparently these compounds “find use as textile and leather assistants and in the paper, laquer, resin, cosmetic, and similar industries.” Hardly **This Year’s Model** though: Filed April 22, 1943, and issued July 8, 1947. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-edit-my-profile/306175/8 "2005-06-02T05:06:23Z")
Gotta tell you **Road Rash** … I didn’t know what you were asking for in the OP either. And I’m still not sure. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-edit-my-profile/306175/9 "2005-06-02T09:44:31Z")
I think he’s asking for it. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-edit-my-profile/306175/10 "2005-06-02T15:51:55Z")
> [@Road Rash](#): > > The right path is likely clear, but I have not found it. I thought I changed it when I renewed. > > My new e-mail is [roadrash7056@sbcglobal.net](mailto:roadrash7056@sbcglobal.net). Give me an e-mail Subscription information/subscription side is one thing; the email displayed in your profile on the board is yet another. You can change your email address yourself in the User Control Panel. If you have problems with any of this, you are invited to send an email to me and I’ll try to straighten you out off the board here. [TubaDiva@aol.com](mailto:TubaDiva@aol.com). your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-edit-my-profile/306175/11 "2005-06-03T02:17:38Z")
I have just attempted to change my email through USER CP. It was not successfull. Apparently, my password is no longer valid (I assume a new one was sent to my old email when I renewed). Did I mention that I sent the webmaster an email about this in the past. To This Year’s Model, and Tubadiva, thanks. You gave me information I could use. I will email you Tubadiva. The rest of you should be trying to help instead of being…sorry, this ain’t the pit. The rest of you, go back to the pit. I renewed later than the deadline. My name was still there. I could still read posts. The top left of of the screen still said “Welcome, Road Rash.” I got a new email. When I renewed, I put my new email. For good reasons, the databases are seperated. But when someone is renewing with a lapsed subscription, with a new email, there should be a courtesy email to the new address. Tubadiva, we have sent personal emails to each other about board related topics in the past. That I posted it in ATMB says that I have made good faith attempts, but have not succeeded. ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-edit-my-profile/306175/12 "2005-06-04T20:07:46Z")
Update, for those who are interested. I just emailed TubaDiva this letter, after attempting once again to obtain a password to edit my profile. Now I am really puzzled! I get an email from The Straight Dope webmaster, giving me a link to change my password. I link, and guess what it asks for? My email. Why, since the source of the email is clear is a little puzzling, unless I am at work or another computer. I submit my current email, and get this message (the same one): “You have not entered an email address that we recognise.” Please try again or contact the…" The SDMB has my email address to send me a password, yet my old email is still on my profile, creating a strange loop which I can not escape. Help me escape, Kyle ---
**Author:** ![Library\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@Library\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Library_Boy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-edit-my-profile/306175/13 "2005-06-05T03:17:00Z")
> [@Road Rash](#): > > Yes! My e-mail! What part of that do you, or the unobservant mods, makes no sense to you! \Is it just my hangover, or is there something wrong with that sentence?\ ::wanders back to the pit:: ---
**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:** [June 6, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-edit-my-profile/306175/14 "2005-06-06T00:29:49Z")
I’ll get your password reset. I already reset your email address for you. your humble TubaDiva