Re^2: invalid mail account for new user

reply by original author of question: The question is asked because I tried to create a new account.
I accidentally clicked on "submit" before completing the entire e-mail address. (only a portion was entered)
The system now recognizes the new user name, but it can never be logged into because there is no way to access the password.
The question was posed as stated because I can see that this could/would be a problem if this occurred on a large scale and there were no corrective action taken, like removing the user name if the e-mail containing the password bounced.
A Vandal is defined for purposes of this discussion as Someone who creates a large number of user names for no particular reason.

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Re^3: invalid mail account for new user by CountZero (Bishop) on Sep 03, 2005 at 16:34 UTC
A Vandal is defined for purposes of this discussion as Someone who creates a large number of user names for no particular reason. So if someone creates a lot of user names with the intent to bring this site down he is no Vandal? See about Vandals and vandalism: Wikipedia CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]
Re: invalid mail account for new user by jonadab (Parson) on Sep 04, 2005 at 09:47 UTC
if someone creates a lot of user names with the intent to bring this site down he is no Vandal I think it's reasonable to assume that's not what he meant. Presumably, the 'for no particular reason' was intended to mean that the definition (rather than the actor) does not attach any particular reason to the action. Granted, it wasn't terribly clear.	[reply]
Re^3: invalid mail account for new user by Ultra (Hermit) on Sep 08, 2005 at 09:29 UTC
Maybe I'm missing the point here, but: If the e-mail wasn't complete, like: foo@bar the system shouldn't accept it. The other case is foo@bar.com instead of baz.foo@bar.com but I don't think this is the case. Also, if the system accepted your e-mail address as valid for creating an account, the issue is that it didn't asked you for a password ... how come? As you said that it doesn't validate the password ... who generates the password? Dodge This!	[reply]