Chat Room Registration

[SPARC Admin]

WHAT: A new Chat Room registration procedure is now in effect; users will need to register with a valid email address in order to create a Chat Room account.

WHY:  The new registration procedure will radically reduce the number of 'trolls' who find their way into the chat room, and it will also reduce 'throwaway' accounts generated from casual users who create an account, look around, and then never come back.

For example, all user accounts were cleared recently, and within 10 days there were close to 1,000 new accounts created. The vast majority of these were 'one-time' accounts. This "free-for-all" registration loads the system needlessly and was becoming an administrative nightmare.

We realize that this will be a minor inconvenience to our regular users, but the enhanced security and stability is worth the few minutes it will take to re-register.

If you have any trouble registering, please contact us at [email protected]

-SPARC Admin


Note: We've found that Hotmail, Yahoo, and MSN may filter out legitimate email from SPARC. If you've registered and haven't received an email from us within an hour or so (usually much sooner than that), try an email address other than Hotmail, Yahoo, or MSN.