As you all know (because you are all members of this forum ), there is an activation e-mail that is sent out after you register for the forum. It's basically a welcome, and a link you must click on to activate your account. This keeps the bots and spammers at bay. However, we've had to activate several accounts manually (especially recently). There is a known issue with AOL and Hotmail sometimes...well...most of the time not accepting e-mails from just about everybody, but it shouldn't be the case with most other providers. If you did not receive an activation e-mail, I would love to know. Please just reply to this thread, with the e-mail address you used to join the forum. *** List everything after the @ only, not your complete e-mail address. *** Thank you!!