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    #1

    Message Board login changes

    I'm not sure which forum to ask this in. How can I change my login name for a particular email address? "Modifying preferences" doesn't allow this and there is no link to anyone administrating the message board. I want to use a new email address as I'm considering dumping my current IP. I started to create a new login with the new email address but had a senior moment and typed in a password instead of my name. Now this seems to be part of my "permanent record". Can anyone at Alpha clue me in on how to get this changed?
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    RE: Message Board login changes

    Richard:

    I'm not sure on this. Under support select Account Info. Then login in as a New Member. this should create a new account.

    I hope this helps.

    bob adler

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      #3
      RE: Message Board login changes

      Hi Rich,

      Tooshay ! How else would i have wound up with a monicker like
      7ZNJABB ????????????

      efs

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        #4
        RE: Message Board login changes

        Dear 7,

        I always figured your mother liked numbers.

        Bill
        Bill Hanigsberg

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          #5
          RE: Message Board login changes

          she also likes letters, she is alphanumeric
          signed 7

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            #6
            RE: Message Board login changes

            It's nice to know I'm not the only one who goofed this up. Once one enters an email address there is no way to change the name attached to it. Yes, you can change the password, but not the name. I hope Alpha has a solution to this dilema.

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              #7
              RE: Message Board login changes

              Short of Alpha doing some editing, you'd have to use a different email address. But, some of us a 'partial' to our email addresses so we chose to suffer. OK Alpha, can you do some editing??

              kenn
              TYVM :) kenn

              Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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                #8
                RE: Message Board login changes

                Should be able to do this by deleting all the Alpha cookies.

                Look in c:\windows\cookies directory and delete any that resemble

                default@alphaphorum[#].txt - then access the Alpha board again and you should have to sign up again, giving you the chance to correct name and email address.

                Or you might thry to open them and edit your email address.
                There can be only one.

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                  #9
                  RE: Message Board login changes

                  I deleted everything in c:windowscookies but the board still calls
                  me 7ZNJABB
                  efs

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                    #10
                    RE: Message Board login changes

                    Are you using WIN ME? If you are, look for a 2nd cookie directory as in C:|windows|temp|cookies

                    If that exists, delete those Alpha cookies too!
                    Peter
                    AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

                     [email protected]
                    https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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                      #11
                      RE: Message Board login changes

                      I don't think this is a cookie issue so much as a problem with Alpha's database of message board users. I periodically 86 my cookies and every once and a while have to log in to the message board. If I try to reregister correctly under the email address I want to use, I get a message that the email address is already in use, so I go back to my old address.

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                        #12
                        RE: Message Board login changes

                        If you email me your current username (email address) and the new email address that you would like to use, I will make the changes you need on our end.

                        -Lenny

                        Lenny Forziati
                        Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
                        Alpha Software Corporation

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                          #13
                          RE: Message Board login changes

                          Alpha should fix that Pronto!
                          Peter
                          AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

                           [email protected]
                          https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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                            #14
                            RE: Message Board login changes

                            You will only get the message saying your address is already in use if you have already created an account for that email address. Just have your password emailed to you for that account if you do not remember it. Go to https://https://forum.alphasoftware.com/alphaphorum/alpha_page.php3?command=emailpassform

                            -Lenny

                            Lenny Forziati
                            Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
                            Alpha Software Corporation

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                              #15
                              RE: Message Board login changes

                              No, the password isn't the issue. When creating the account I (and apparently a few others) entered our email address and then, incorrectly, a password where our names should go -- the result, I guess, of following the old American tradition of ignoring the directions. We understand that we can change passwords all we want. It is just that Alpha provides no means of editing the other data so that such mistakes can be corrected.

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