In the past week I have advised a couple of friends who are always bugging me for VB6 help to register on this forum.

They both reported the same issue:

Even 24 hours later the board had NOT sent them the registration e-mail; so they can log-on, but not post. (Yes, the e-mail addresses given were and are fully operative.)

There seems to be no button or option to ask for the registration to be sent again. The only option seems to be to re-register - but of course that name is now unavailable, so they choose a new name - and again there is no mail!

I can see a problem here as all the good names get used up on failed registration attempts. Are unused unregistered names purged by sysop from time to time?

Is this a general problem? Any solution?