Re: Need Help Changing Subscription Email Address

Posted by Ernest P. Duckweather on Nov 13, 2016; 2:45am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Need-Help-Changing-Subscription-Email-Address-tp7597492p7597509.html

I think I just found the information I'm looking for by rereading your first reply.  When I first read it, I didn't get it.  It seemed too confusing to me.  Now it makes sense to me.  

In the meantime, I've found the well hidden and disguised email address of a forum moderator for the FreeDOS-User forum, so I'll see if he can help me figure out why I'm not receiving emails from his forum.

Thanks for being so patient with me.

Ernie

GregChapman wrote

No one has "an account" at Nabble.

Each forum hosted by Nabble is a completely separate entity and you register with each entirely separately. It is, therefore, perfectly possible to use the same email address and the same password on a dozen different forums, in the same way that you probably use the same email address and password at half a dozen different on-line shops.

A username at a Nabble forum is only used for display purposes on posts. It is linked to the email address registered at an individual forum and can be changed independently of the current email address recorded on that forum. Both email address and username will be checked before being accepted to prevent duplicates on that forum. (It doesn't matter if they are used on other Nabble forums.)

It is therefore entirely normal for someone to be registered on half a dozen different forums and use the same email address and username on each. Equally, they can use a different email address or different username on each.

There should be no reason to delete your accounts and start again. Providing you have the right concepts in your head and follow the right route, all is simple.