Posted by Rune on September 14, 2000 at 19:49:03:
In Reply to: Here's the full story... posted by Balgrimnr(IMM) on September 14, 2000 at 16:04:05:
> Funny thing. I read this email about a guy who lost his password. I think to myself "sucks to be him, but we don't fix that sort of thing, to avoid people trying to get us to "fix" a password for a char that doesn't belong to them. > Not even thinking about the stuff Nep mentioned below, which would be a good reason not to send a role out, I check out the guy's role online, copy and paste it into a log file, and reply to the guy. > I say in my email to him that no, we don't fix passwords, sorry, but here is his role. I also say that getting his description would be more difficult, as I would really have to go look at the pfile, > I then copy and paste his role into the email, and send it. > Two days later, I get a returned email. Seems the address he'd emailed us with wasn't correct, or his mail server had some problems. > In any case, I promptly forgot about the whole thing, since I had no real way of contacting the guy. Sure, I could have posted that information > For the comprehension impaired, the "guy" was, indeed, Motiak. > Sorry you didn't get your role, but it wasn't that we didn't care.
> Then I read that this guy wants his role and his description sent to him.
> and fix the whacked formatting that the text editor on the server puts in...but anyways, his role is attached below.
> on this forum, but that's not really the sort of thing I bring to the forum, I'm more of a "sit back and answer questions" type guy. If I had,
> in fact, known that this role of this guy was so important that it would sour him on CF completely to NOT get it sent to him, I'd likely have
> tried posting here, or going to IRC to find him, or some such. But, I didn't, so...I didn't. Case closed.