tpollauf wrote:Welcome back. How was it that you got a "reminder" of a new password and username? I don't expect you to have the answer but maybe thousands of members got those e-mails like yourself since the site was just recently overhauled. I didn't get one and had some minor difficulty getting back in. I'm here to stay. Now that you too are back get re-involved and visit often. This is an unbelievable informative site
When we converted the database from the old forum software to the new forum software, the passwords weren't migrated. To deal with this, the consultants gave me a computer program that was supposed to email every user with their new password.
I started using the program, which runs pretty slow (estimate one user every 5 seconds or so). I had gotten about 1/3 of the way through the database when I found out that there was a bug in their program. The bug was causing it to send dozens and dozens of emails to the same person - any person with an apostrophe in their username was getting like 50 copies of the same email. So I had to stop using the program. I didn't get any complaints, but I do feel foolish.
I finally got a fix for it and I am still sending out those emails. Of course all the regular users are already back online, but I wanted to go through the whole user list anyway, perhaps we'll bring back a few users who have been away for a while. It also gives me the opportunity to purge from the database users who would rather not have their accounts with us anymore.
You may still get an email - now that the problem with the emailing program is resolved *and* I made some good progress on the problems that people were having regarding receiving their "forgot password" email, I'm back to running the program. We'll see how it goes.
