WordPress (the software this blog uses) sends people email for a variety of reasons – the most important of which is to validate new registrations. You can also request to be notified if someone replies to your comments. <\/p>\n
A while back Google informed me that my email account may have been compromised, so I changed to a much more secure password. Unfortunately, I forgot to change the password inside WordPress, so any attempts it made to send email were failing, probably with no warning.<\/p>\n
So if you tried to register for the blog (not the website itself) and think you were being ignored, that is why!<\/p>\n
WordPress itself also recently made account creation more secure by not allowing users to choose their own passwords – people will often use the same password for everything – bad idea!<\/p>\n
So if you wanted to help blow up the web site, give it another try \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WordPress (the software this blog uses) sends people email for a variety of reasons – the most important of which is to validate new registrations. You can also request to be notified if someone replies to your comments. A while … Continue reading