Subject: Activating Expired iTools Account
Subject: Activating Expired iTools Account
- Subject: Subject: Activating Expired iTools Account
- From: John Tencick <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:31:02 -0600
- Organization: BCMUG
After five attempts to get the .Mac download for our group
., in disgust I quit trying. Same for me Garr, loopitity
loop , on passwords. That's a game for kids, not me
Garr. Please tell me an easier way we can get . Mac .
John Tencick
Apple Ambassador. B C M U G
Montrose Colorado 81401-5572
P.S. LYNN : CAN YOU SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR US, VIA APPLE.
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Subject: Activating Expired iTools Account
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 22:07:29 -0400
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From: Jim Foster <email@hidden>
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Organization: Macintosh Users East; Courtice, Ontario, Canada
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To: Apple User Group Discussion <email@hidden>
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Passing this along in case anyone else finds themself in the same
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boat....
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Got together tonight with our club's Apple Ambassador to arrange for the
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free dot-Mac account for our MUG, and to ensure that we were able to
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utilize the email address that we have hitherto had associated with our
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original free iTools account.
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Apple Ambassador had the scoop on gaining a free dot-Mac account, while
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I had the password for our original iTools account.
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It was not until I got to his home and read the literature he had
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received that I learned that it is not a fast process to get the free
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dot-Mac account. He has to logon to his Learn & Earn account, complete
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an online course about .mac, complete an online exam and score at least
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80%, and THEN wait what could be a week or more to receive an electronic
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"key" which qualifies him to apply for a free dot-Mac account for our
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club.
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To make matters worse, our Ambassador managed to get himself into an
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endless "DO loop" at the logon screen. He tried several times to get a
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temporary password, use that to set up a new unique password, only to
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then be blocked out of our account. He has sent an email asking for help
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in straightening this out.
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So, I wondered, what happens to our original iTools email account name
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if we don't get our new free dot-Mac account set up before the end of
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September deadline our iTools account expiry? I was all set to start
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emailing questions when I found my answer on MacCentral ... turns out
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that Apple will be deleting any information which old iTools account
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holders have left on their Servers but the actual email account names
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will be maintained indefinitely. This means that we can still "retrieve"
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our current MUG email account name and apply it to our free dot-Mac
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account even if we don't get all the i's dotted and t's crossed by the
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end of September.
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Hope this helps others.
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Oh, for the article, go to:
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http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0209/26.mac.php
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J. L. (Jim) Foster
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President / BBS Admin
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Macintosh Users East [MaUsE]
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Courtice, Ontario, Canada
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