Everyone, please do me a quick favor

[Whill]

Please access your Profile edit screen and make sure your email address is up-to-date on your account. This is vital for recovering access to your account should you lose it, and for receiving any important emails about site outages and other important announcements, as rare as those may be.

Thank you very much.
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[CRMcNeill]

Tried to do this, but when I clicked the button to change my profile settings, it said my signature was too long...
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[Whill]

[Whill]

Please add ' forums -at- rancorpit -dot- com ' to the contacts of the email address you have registered for this site (obviously the actual email address).

Please update the email address in your profile if you have any Microsoft email address (outlook, hotmail, etc.). You need to have a current valid email on file for account access recovery reasons.

I have spent a lot of time dealing with people submitting registration requests, and then their email service denying the reply. It is a big waste of my time because I do not know they can't complete the registration until after the registration has been created.

So a lot of people over the years have reported Rancor Pit emails as spam, so the emails are getting blocked. I have reported these rejected emails to my web host and they have contacted some of the email providers and gotten them to remove the blocks. Microsoft is like, no. It was passed on to me that they want me to fill out a form and join some community for being monitored. The links they sent just goes on a wild good chase until it gets to a page that is only visible through the Wayback Machine web archive. I found a Microsoft community page where others had the same problem and the discussion lead to it being reported and no one getting any replies to the report.

I do not appreciate being jerked around and I do not have time for this. So from now on, if I get a registration request with an outlook or hotmail email address, the registration is going straight in the "unregisterable" folder. I'm not even going to try to register them. Get a gmail address or something.

The whole thing really burns me because in the 17.5 years this forum has been in existence, it has never sent out spam. Except for very rare major announcement emails (I've only done one ever, about the PbP forum), all emails you get are user-requested. A long time ago the previous admin said he had to deactivate emails going for thread subscriptions. He didn't document why, but I'm guessing it is because of this issue. And my personal email account successfully gets Rancor Pit emails for PM notifications, so it isn't a problem on the Rancor Pit end.

To all the past Rancor Pit users that reported Rancor Pit emails (that you signed up for) as spam—I curse you. You have wasted hours of my time and you have blocked new people from joining this community.

Please do not report Rancor Pit emails as spam! If you need help stopping unwanted PM notification emails, please reach out to me or help. Thank you.
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[Whill]

I think I remember you mentioning that. Unfortunately, I'm in over over my head for resolving this issue. I already went way above and beyond to resolve the site's reputation with Microsoft by following the trail of this wild goose chase to a dead end with Microsoft emails.


When my son ordered the wrong kind of Minecraft for his computer, it was a nightmare to resolve. And one of his Xbox games had a DLC pack that included two other DLC pack but it was not explicit in their interface that was the case, so I bought two duplicates. I promptly got the refund for one duplicate, but after multiple denials of getting a refund of the other one I finally just gave up because it was only $6.95 and I had already put way more time than it was worth into it. It was just the principle of the matter but I lost the battle anyway.

But besides my son's Xbox, I just can't get away from Microsoft. I just plunked down for a Microsoft 365 Family (formally called Office) subscription because I am heavily invested in tons of Word and Excel documents from even before I went Mac. I was tired of continuing to get those notifications that my Word and Excel are "no longer supported." The subscription plan allows up to six family members to get access to the whole suite of applications of up to five devices each. And thankfully for us, it works for a mix of PC Windows and MacOS devices (including Android and iOS), including documents can be freely cross-shared between these devices and still work. Word has more features than my 2016 Office or whatever it was I had—I'm still figuring it out but I am really liking the new Word so far. Of course with the subscription you stay current on the versions. I've paid for multiple purchased version in the past (and lost formatting and some important text in one excel document), so this subscription at least reduces the periodic Microsoft cash hemorrhages to a steady leaching.

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Anyway, I'm not pouring through Rancor Pit profiles to look for email addresses. If you are currently registered with a Microsoft email, I strongly suggest you update it to the different one. Using the forums built-in access recovery process is the most secure if it needs to be used, and you need a valid email address on file that will not reject Rancor Pit emails as spam to use that feature. So this is not just for PM notifications.

And speaking of that, while you are in your Profile, please make sure that you at least have the following option:

[KageRyu]

I feel your pain too. I have come to hate Microsoft for their mismanagement of Xbox Live Gold. I am currently fighting with them over them ending my membership a day early for the third year in a row.
As to forums, I never understood why people cannot unsubscribe from a community they no longer wish to be part of, instead of reporting it spam. Sadly, some Email companies promote this by providing their own "Unsubscribe" button that will mark the email spam and send a notice to the originator and their web host (great for actual spam but poor for unsubscribing from wanted mailing lists).
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