Hey Joey,
I have a theory that I'm 95% confident in. You've probably noticed the comments here and there about the overwhelming number of SPAM apps we were getting slammed with since late last year. A lot of them confirmed their registration via e-mail, so they ended up in a status where they were just waiting for 'final approval' by an admin (we deleted them). Then there were a ton of those who never confirmed their registration, so those wound up in another status where they were waiting for the applicant to confirm their account via e-mail. I stayed mostly on top of deleting both types up until May when I burned out and just tried to keep up with those waiting for final approval. This is essentially a high level background of what we've been dealing with.
Recently I noticed there were maybe 8 or 10 members (one of which was you) who at one time or another had changed their e-mail address in their profile. When that happens the software sends out an e-mail to the new address and puts the member back into the queue where it's waiting for them to confirm their new e-mail address. Once that's done they go back to a regular member like they always were. Three or four months ago I went into each of those 8 - 10 profiles and resent the confirmation e-mails to each member hoping everyone would receive it, confirm the change, and go back to all good.
Okay, here's the theory: The 8- 10 members who at one time changed their e-mail had a typo in the address, so you never received the system generated confirmation request and you wound up in the wrong status (waiting to confirm via e-mail). Everyone still had posting privileges so you would have never known there was a problem. I knew you guys were in that status because I had noticed you there over the last few months, but it takes a keen eye to not accidentally delete the affected accounts when you're in a rather large list of 100s if not 1000s SPAM accounts. I believe you guys were blown out by accident on Monday when some serious housekeeping took place. I know I didn't delete you guys and I will refrain from any finger-pointing, but I'm going to step up to the plate and take responsibility, because I didn't do something to remedy the situation when I had the chance. I wish I would have been more proactive and contacted each of you to get it worked out, but hindsight is 20/20. I do recall seeing your e-mail at one time, it was a cox.net address, but I cannot remember the rest of it. Please accept my apology on behalf of everyone. I really am sorry that this happened. I hope there is a backup like Skip mentioned to restore the old profiles.
Thanks,
Mark
