One way to solve the problem is to abandon that account and create another one.

Get a free web mail account (operamail.com is good) and start over.

Nancy,

"It's a terrible shame that a great sewing resource is plagued by basic technical incompetance and administrator indifference" It's a shame that you experienced such problems on Patternreview.com. I have been a member for several years and have not had any problems like you describe. I think creating a new account might be a good idea. The site has a wealth of information and a wonderful online community, I'd hate for anyone to miss out on that. I know that Deepika was having some problems receiving emails a while ago so perhaps she never received yours. Please understand that it takes a great deal of time to managed a site like patternreview. I have never known Deepika to be incompetant or indifferent.

Cindy

Lazygardens, I did create a new account last week, and it didn't solve the problem. And Cindy, Deepika did receive at least one of my emails. I had politely written to her about the problem I had experienced and her complete reply was "Try it again." Well I tried it over a dozen times and nothing worked. When I sent another polite email, it drew absolutely no response. If patternreview were a mediocre website, I wouldn't care. But there's a wealth of information on it, and it's very frustrating not to be able to log onto it.

Nancy, I can certainly understand your why you are upset. You are right, patternreview is not a mediocre website. There must be some "glich" keeping you from accessing the site. Hundreds of people access the site on a daily basis. Technology idiot that I am, I have no idea what the problem might be. I wish that I could be of some help here. Please keep trying. It is a wonderful resource for sewing information.

Oh hey - I had a similar prob w/ Organic Gardening magazine's boards - however, when I wrote them, I DID get a reply & my account was 'fixed'.

Funny thing was, there was no 'contact' link on the board pages - I had to write the mag.....

That said, have you checked your browser preferences yet? If you have 'cookies' disabled, that may be the reason.

Or might it be a security issue - firewalls & such(?)

Is the computer @ home or work?

FWIW, HTH

(& now I'm off to check that site out)

signed up last nite and had no problem at all - have you tried accessing the site from a different computer?
Carolyn

Hi I have had the same problem and just gave up on it. It could be that I have Trend Security.Does anyone have any suggestions? Sure would like an answer to this problem.
TIA

I had a problem being able to access any gardenweb or home site forum areas using internet explorer. A friend suggested using mozilla firefox. After downloading that I can get on and I also don't get the nasty pop ups. Google Mozilla+firefox and download that it is an internet browser like IE but is a lot better and not as glitchy+ it is free:)

Stacie