E36 FORUM

[grantfk10]

Has anyone registered with e36coupe.com recently? I just aquired an E36 touring so I thought I'd join up, but been waiting for the confirmation/activation email for several days now - seems they are a bit slow at taking up new members.....

[nickso]

they are a bit slow at everything grant. others have had problems this week too but i've been on this week with no issues.

[grantfk10]

Ok, cheers Nick. Seems they are about as fast as my touring

[daimlerman]

Gone to the dark side,Grant?

[RM2186]

And there was I about to offer Grant my revived 320i Touring as well

[nickso]

sounds more like a 318i touring.....oh the shame.

[mabz]

Has anyone registered with e36coupe.com recently? I just aquired an E36 touring so I thought I'd join up, but been waiting for the confirmation/activation email for several days now - seems they are a bit slow at taking up new members.....

ive had exactly the same problems dude im still waiting for the email too

[grantfk10]

Gone to the dark side,Grant?

Just a "winter runner" for when the cabby gets tucked away Malcolm

And there was I about to offer Grant my revived 320i Touring as well

Keep me in mind Mike, I may still be interested

sounds more like a 318i touring.....oh the shame.

Even worse Nick - it's a 316i touring

[grantfk10]

I'm STILL waiting for the confirmation/activation e-mail


If anyone on here is a member on e36coupe.com , can you give them a shout and let them know I'm waiting.....

I can't seem to find a way to get in touch with their admin/moderators ?

[mabz]

me too dude can you shout em for me too please

[reggiebaby]

they were having probs with hackers and spammers last time i went on but ill have another look on there

[TopSod]

They did post this up, however that was 8th March 2007...


Account Activations - Delays and the reasons
by Russ » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:48 am

Ok...let's explain the situation, as we may well differ from other forums (it's because we're that good! )

In order to keep this forum free of spam BOTS (Bots being automated sign up progams who's sole purpose in life is to spam the daylights out of any forum going), every single registration request gets sent to myself and Kul for approval and activation.

In order to check if each username put forward for activation is real or not, we'd have to activate every account, then go into that account and check for spurious website links and dodgy email addresses. If the account then turns out to be some BOT that is going to automatically post hundreds of links to porn sites, stocks and shares or pharmacuticals 5h1t, we then have to delete that account.

Please now try and consider that daily, in both mine and Kul's home email accounts, we usually have anywhere between 30 and 50 attempted sign ups per day - so clearly, going through the above routine is just not sensible.

So, as it stands, we take a look at the usernames (which is all we get told on the activation request email anyway).

As well as the clearly obvious attempts like:

ttgghhsuggggff

ffggff

and such like, many BOTS sign up with usernames with a format such as:

Bob.Smith

Chris8836

Lauren-Scott

which makes it much harder to determine what is a real account and what's a BOT account.

There has been a real spat over the last 9 months or so of very 'real' looking usernames that have turned out to be BOTS.

So it really comes down to what we consider looks like a genuine username.

Clearly it doesn't help our cause when people choose ridiculous usernames (although sometimes if they are that stupid, it's clear they are a real person...just not a very bright one!).

Being a car forum, we kind of expect people to have something to do with their car in their username, ie: Paul328i or something - or at least something that looks plausable as a username people would want to introduce themselves to others at a meeting as.

So there you have it. We personally screen all attempted sign ups to try and keep our/your forum as free from spam as possible for your browsing benefit. Some people's accounts may not get activated, for whatever reason. Apologies for that, but it happens occassionally.

All the moderators have email addresses, and can and have been contacted by some people (some rather impatient, I might add) who's accounts have not been activated. Myself or Kul can then check out these individual accounts - although the very fact that they have made the effort to contact a Moderator in the first place does confrim they are a genuine user, not an automated effort. These accounts are usually activated with 15 mins or so, as either myself or Kul are normally online.

I hope that clarifies things somewhat.


I've managed to find an email address for the creator of that post, which I can send via PM if anyone still needs in.

[aj_mckay]

@ grantfk10 - Did you ever get this sorted? I'm a member on there so could drop a moderator a PM if you like. They have been having some issues with their serveres I think as it's often down for quite long periods...!

[grantfk10]

@ grantfk10 - Did you ever get this sorted? I'm a member on there so could drop a moderator a PM if you like. They have been having some issues with their serveres I think as it's often down for quite long periods...!

I'm still waiting

I got an email address from Topsod (by pm), but still had no reply to that.

I'd appreciate it if you could get in touch with a Mod for me.

Cheers

[aj_mckay]

No problem, let me know what details you are using (email address / username) - PM me if you'd prefer.

[grantfk10]

Still no luck in getting a confirmation email from them, looks like I'm going to give them a miss.

Thank gawd there's a decent crowd on the E3Zone - I know where to get advice about my E30 cabby here!

The E36 Touring will just have to take it's chances from now on............. until MOT time, and then the scrapyard probably - unless someone on here can help with a few issues????

[Cook318IS]

there are plenty of people on here who know about e36's, and you'll probably get a quicker response!!

[DanThe]

You will get better info on here, all they will tell you is to buy a 'dave f' and a £400 inlet manifold

[bss325i]

You will get better info on here, all they will tell you is to buy a 'dave f' and a £400 inlet manifold

[DanThe]

Not that im biased

[e30topless]

what's a dave F ?

[Cook318IS]

what's a dave F ?

basically a k&n induction kit with a plastic heatshield

[aj_mckay]

Still no luck in getting a confirmation email from them, looks like I'm going to give them a miss.

Thank gawd there's a decent crowd on the E3Zone - I know where to get advice about my E30 cabby here!

The E36 Touring will just have to take it's chances from now on............. until MOT time, and then the scrapyard probably - unless someone on here can help with a few issues????

I never did hear anything back from the PM I sent about your account mate!

What issues do you have with your e36 anyway? Like others have said, maybe we can help!