Even without your email, you should still be able to login to yor account with your original name & password. However, once you login into that account, do update the e-mail. If the board or us need to send out a mail notification, & it keeps bouncing back to our servers as undeliverable a few times, the account may get deleted to stop the board or us from sending out undeliverable mail.
That's a good idea for anyone with an outdated e-mail at Betty's too. If for some reason the board or us must send out a mail, & it bounces back to us a undeliverable, they can loose their account.
People are always surprised that for so many years we've been around, that we have only hundreds of members where the competition has tens or hundreds of thousands. Why should I maintain a massive database of thousands members who haven't been here in years, or have used a different login for years, or are dead? So eventually inactive members get removed. About once or twice a year, people who haven't logged into their account for a long time, get sent an e-mail with our current site address in case they lost track of us. If their mail comes back as undeliverable several times, the account gets deleted.
Your old account still shows as valid. So I guess the last time we did that, it didn't bounce back to us. So it stayed up. Or I may have defaulted the account as permanent. Many times, a user with a lot of posts with a lot of hits at Betty's get their account set as permanent, even if they haven't used their account in a long time, to prevent automatic deletion.
Also, if you have a revised version of a story, you can just post it as a revised version -- you just mention at the top of the story before the story or in the topic title, that it's a new version of it. That way the board will have both. The old version will eventually fall down the list until finally it makes it to a section for old or archived stories.
It's probably not a good idea to delete or change the old original version. If stories get lost during a crash, move, transfer, or system update, I may have to retrieve it from an old database or the web archives site. So a new version may be replaced by the original during recovery. If both versions still exist on the board, the databases & archives will be able to tell the difference between them, & save both versions. If a recovery is necessary, the system & I can actually see there's 2 different versions & know which one was lost or needs to be recovered.
Besides, one of the main attractions of our stories as opposed to others, is many of our versions of the stories were first drafts of the stories, or some of their earliest editions, with many of the original typos, slangs, & language quirks of the times -- 1997 is 20 years ago now. A lot has changed in 20 years. It's fun to see all those changes, quirks,& original writings of the times. Things changed a lot in just the past 10 years.
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