# Tuba, Sorry to Bug You Again..
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-sorry-to-bug-you-again/1332
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [April 8, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-sorry-to-bug-you-again/1332 "2000-04-08T20:03:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Anne\_Thrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Anne_Thrope)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-sorry-to-bug-you-again/1332/1 "2000-04-08T20:03:00Z")
After my old user name (smeggy) was de-registered the other day, I received two e-mails from the webmaster, generated 3 seconds apart. Each e-mail contained a new password for that old username, saying that I had changed my e-mail address of record (
which I hadn’t; I just changed my username.)
Could you let me know if I have to do anything to clear this up?
Thanks!
~Meg
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### Author:  [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2000, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-sorry-to-bug-you-again/1332/2 "2000-04-08T22:45:00Z")
How did you go about changing your username? Normally this requires us to delete your old username first, since we permit only one username per customer. At any rate, I’ve deleted username “smeggy.”
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Anne\_Thrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Anne_Thrope)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2000, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-sorry-to-bug-you-again/1332/3 "2000-04-09T08:11:00Z")
Thanks, Ed. I asked Tuba Diva to delete the old name, which she did. For a day, the name showed up as “unregistered”, but then it somehow got sent back into the fray. (apparently twice!)
I did it by the books, as I didn’t want to be booted for dual identities.
Anyway, thanks for your help!
~Meg
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-sorry-to-bug-you-again/1332/4 "2000-04-09T19:12:00Z")
There’s definitely some weirdness going on, this is not the first strange thing I’ve heard of involving user names.
You’re not to blame.
Let me kick this over to the techs and to the lovely folks at UBB.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
The Straight Dope
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2000, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-sorry-to-bug-you-again/1332/5 "2000-04-10T20:24:00Z")
Okay, now we got TWO different screen names with the same address.
This will not fly, dear heart.
Pick one. I’ll remove the other one.
I’m sure you didn’t mean for this to happen; we didn’t either. The system’s been really really wacky, I dunno what’s going on.
Thanks and hoping to hear from you soon –
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
The Straight Dope
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Anne\_Thrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Anne_Thrope)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2000, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-sorry-to-bug-you-again/1332/6 "2000-04-10T21:16:00Z")
Miss Anne Thrope: This is the one and only name I want! I keep asking that you let smeggy die, DIE, **DIE**!!! Kill smeggy! thank you. (And God help us if those aren’t the two names with the same address!)
Thank You!
~Meg
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2000, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-sorry-to-bug-you-again/1332/7 "2000-04-10T21:29:00Z")
We think we got a handle on it now.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
The Straight Dope
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Anne\_Thrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Anne_Thrope)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2000, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuba-sorry-to-bug-you-again/1332/8 "2000-04-10T21:37:00Z")
Tuba, I just checked my e-mail (no, I don’t do that FIRST; I always come here first!)
and discovered that someone registered that “It’sMeggy the series” name under my e-mail, and kindly sent me a “virtual insult” too.
I don’t know who it was, and I don’t know how they did it, but I am just about ready to give up on even trying to be a rule-abiding member of this board. (Yeah, I know, everyone in unison, now: “boo effing hoo”.)
I don’t know how someone could have broken into my e-mail. I don’t see how someone could have even retrived the password without doing so. I don’t want this “It’s Meggy” name, either. This is bullsh\*\*.