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Please
read, and then check your mail settings.
You
can only open any new game, using its unique, six digit assigned
password. This unique assigned password, is sent to you, in your game invite.
It is attached to the link that opens the page, where players
are asked to create their preferred password.
All
the game invites are sent out on the e-mail address of
player 1, except
in the cases of Yahoo, Sympatico, Hotmail and MSN users. For technical
reasons, their game postings are
sent on scrabble@thepixiepit.co.uk For those users,
you must have the e-mail address, scrabble@thepixiepit.co.uk included
in your Safe List. To do this, open your e-mail, and
click on Contacts, then click on Safe List, and
add that address. If you have elected to have game postings of
your own plays, they are also sent to all players, on
scrabble@thepixiepit.co.uk
For
all other users, if you are player 1, your game invite is sent
to you on your own e-mail address. Please check your
e-mail program's settings, and make sure, your own e-mail
address is in your allowed list. Check your spam filters too, as
many players, have their own e-mail addresses, in their
blocked senders list.
All
your subsequent game updates, are sent to you, on the e-mail
address of your opponent, except as stated above for those
users. Many players, unknowingly block e-mail addresses, their
own even. Please make sure, all your opponent's e-mail
addresses, are in your allowed list, your own e-mail address
too. Please do not block any e-mail addresses,
that are used in your games.
Please
make sure you're not sending game postings to a Junk
Mail/Spam folder. The game sends out all the game postings
automatically. I have no control over their arrivals at the
other end sorry, that can depend on so many factors. The fact
that your game exists, in the lists in the game rooms, proves
your game invites have been sent to you. The new game set-up
subroutine, creates the game, and sends out all of the game
invites, at the same time.
Also
make sure you have enough room in your Inbox to receive e-mails.
If you are using spam filters, make sure they allow
you to receive your game postings. It is never a question of the
game postings not being sent, that process is automatic. It is always a question of. Why
haven't you received yours?
During
peak periods, many Internet Service Providers hold e-mails in a
queue. There is nothing we can do about that, but your game
postings will arrive eventually. They may not be in the order
played, and may all arrive in one go.
Many
employers, and Universities will block non-work related e-mails.
So if you are playing from a work place, please make sure you
are allowed to do so!
Finally,
one player once told me this:-
Michael was right...... I was
actually blocking my own address! You may recall that I couldn't
get my games when I was Player #1.
To find out why, I checked my SPAM
folder, I checked my TRASH. I checked my ADDRESS BOOK to make
sure that my own address was included.
But I did not check my blocked
addresses until now, because -- hey -- after all -- who would be
THAT stupid?
I
hope this helps,
Michael.
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