Troubleshooting help

[Makai Guy]

Common TUG Bulletin Board problems and links to their solutions.

• Registration problems
  • Registration email not received
  • Registration email received but problems activating account
  • Unable to complete online registration (AOL users)
• Login problems
  • Cannot login - not recognized as a BBS user
  • My last visit was before June 2005 and the board no longer recognizes me.
  • I am not being logged in automatically.
  • Successful login, then asked to login again.
• Username
  • How can I change my BBS Username?
• Password
  • Lost password - how to have it reset
  • Change password via your user profile
• Email
  • Updating email address in your bbs profile
    
  • Email from bbs not being received
    
  • Cannot log in to update my email address
• Reading/Searching messages
  • Can't see all the posts in a thread
  • Confused by the order of the posts in a thread
  • Timeout error when following link to a thread (AOL users)
  • Some links not visible
  • Reporting a problem post
  • Searching for short terms such as 3-letter acronyms
  • Fatal error when using BBS search function
• Posting messages
  • How do I post messages to the bbs?
  • How do I enter a reply to an existing post?
  • How do I quote the original post in my reply?
  • How do I quote multiple posts in my reply?
  • How do I edit my posts?
  • How do I delete my posts?
  • Message posted under the wrong username
  • Cannot post message (AOL users)
• Forum access
  • Can't access Sightings/Distressed forum
  • Timeout error when accessing forum (AOL users)
• TUG Membership
  • Need help to update BBS Member Code in bbs profile.
  • TUG Member shown as 'Guest' on BBS
    

[Makai Guy]

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