Why Can't I log into this Forum using my new e-mail?

Does anyone know why I have to still use my old e-mail address to log into
this Forum, when my new e-mail address has been verified? I keep having to
use the old address. When I look at my profile, it shows the new e-mail
address. However, I can't log in, using my new e-mail. Very strange!

Pam

Pam Jones wrote:
> Does anyone know why I have to still use my old e-mail address to log into
> this Forum, when my new e-mail address has been verified? I keep having to
> use the old address. When I look at my profile, it shows the new e-mail
> address. However, I can't log in, using my new e-mail. Very strange!

You will never have a problem like this -- or many other problems -- if
you use a newsreader instead.

Pam Jones wrote:

> Does anyone know why I have to still use my old e-mail address to log into
> this Forum, when my new e-mail address has been verified? I keep having to
> use the old address. When I look at my profile, it shows the new e-mail
> address. However, I can't log in, using my new e-mail. Very strange!
>
> Pam

Microsoft's NNTP server doesn't require any login credentials. So
you're question doesn't make any sense.

This is not a forum. It is a newsgroup (aka Usenet). Go read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroups

VanguardLH wrote:

> Pam Jones wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know why I have to still use my old e-mail address to log into
>> this Forum, when my new e-mail address has been verified? I keep having to
>> use the old address. When I look at my profile, it shows the new e-mail
>> address. However, I can't log in, using my new e-mail. Very strange!
>>
>> Pam
>
> Microsoft's NNTP server doesn't require any login credentials. So
> you're question doesn't make any sense.
>
> This is not a forum. It is a newsgroup (aka Usenet). Go read:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroups

Oops, I see you are using the webnews-for-dummies gateway to Usenet that
Microsoft provides to pretend they have forums. So is your "new e-mail
address" a Windows Live ID account? I haven't bothered using their
webnews interface but presumably you have to log into it to use it.

VanguardLH wrote:
> Pam Jones wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know why I have to still use my old e-mail address to log into
>> this Forum, when my new e-mail address has been verified? I keep having to
>> use the old address. When I look at my profile, it shows the new e-mail
>> address. However, I can't log in, using my new e-mail. Very strange!
>>
>> Pam
>
> Microsoft's NNTP server doesn't require any login credentials. So
> you're question doesn't make any sense.
>
> This is not a forum. It is a newsgroup (aka Usenet). Go read:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroups
test

Yes, my new e-mail is a Windows Live ID account. I can't reply to this,
without having to type my e-mail and pass word. Windows Help, leads me to
this page, so I'm assuming it's how a person reaches it! If I'm not supposed
to reach this page by this route, why has Windows Help led me to it? I
suppose I click on the links and see where that leads me. No wonder friends
tell me to buy a MACC!

"VanguardLH" wrote:

> VanguardLH wrote:
>
> > Pam Jones wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone know why I have to still use my old e-mail address to log into
> >> this Forum, when my new e-mail address has been verified? I keep having to
> >> use the old address. When I look at my profile, it shows the new e-mail
> >> address. However, I can't log in, using my new e-mail. Very strange!
> >>
> >> Pam
> >
> > Microsoft's NNTP server doesn't require any login credentials. So
> > you're question doesn't make any sense.
> >
> > This is not a forum. It is a newsgroup (aka Usenet). Go read:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroups
>
> Oops, I see you are using the webnews-for-dummies gateway to Usenet that
> Microsoft provides to pretend they have forums. So is your "new e-mail
> address" a Windows Live ID account? I haven't bothered using their
> webnews interface but presumably you have to log into it to use it.
>

What's that, when it's at home?

"C A Upsdell" <""cupsdell"@nospam@upsdel" wrote:

> Pam Jones wrote:
> > Does anyone know why I have to still use my old e-mail address to log into
> > this Forum, when my new e-mail address has been verified? I keep having to
> > use the old address. When I look at my profile, it shows the new e-mail
> > address. However, I can't log in, using my new e-mail. Very strange!
>
> You will never have a problem like this -- or many other problems -- if
> you use a newsreader instead.
>
>

Pam Jones wrote:
> What's that, when it's at home?
>

There are piles of newsreaders available, many free. Microsoft offers
Outlook Express, which besides being an email program is also a
newsreader. I now use Mozilla's Thunderbird, which is also both an
email program and a newsreader. There are many others which you can Google.

Note that, if the newsreader is also an email program, you do not have
to use the email features. I have never used the email features of the
newsreader programs I have used.

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:25:00 -0700, Pam Jones
<PamJones@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Yes, my new e-mail is a Windows Live ID account. I can't reply to this,
> without having to type my e-mail and pass word. Windows Help, leads me to
> this page, so I'm assuming it's how a person reaches it!


What you are calling a "page" is actually not a page, or a web site at
all. It's a newsgroup. You are accessing this newsgroup through the
awful microsoft web-based interface to it, rather than the normal way
of using a newsreader.

Read more about what a newsgroup is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroup


> If I'm not supposed
> to reach this page by this route, why has Windows Help led me to it?


Because Microsoft believes that their web-based interface is the best,
or easiest, way to get to their newsgroups. I, and most experienced
users of these newsgroups, strenuously disagree, and strongly
recommend you use a newsreader instead. You will find it to be a much
better experience.

Do yourself a favor and switch to a newsreader, such as Outlook
Express, which comes with Windows. See
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm


> I
> suppose I click on the links and see where that leads me. No wonder friends
> tell me to buy a MACC!


Your choice entirely.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Using a newsreader is the proper way to read newsgroups.
It avoids all the problems that come with using the slow and quirky
web interface you are using now.

Outlook Express Newsreader-Setting up
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...oups/setup.asp
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/resou...tm#setupmsnews
http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm

Agent
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.com/index.htm



On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:27:01 -0700, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support, Pam Jones
<PamJones@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>What's that, when it's at home?
>
>"C A Upsdell" <""cupsdell"@nospam@upsdel" wrote:
>
>> Pam Jones wrote:
>> > Does anyone know why I have to still use my old e-mail address to log into
>> > this Forum, when my new e-mail address has been verified? I keep having to
>> > use the old address. When I look at my profile, it shows the new e-mail
>> > address. However, I can't log in, using my new e-mail. Very strange!
>>
>> You will never have a problem like this -- or many other problems -- if
>> you use a newsreader instead.
>>
>>