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It would be an easy thing for PG to do, in fact cubase I believe do something along these lines, the licence key has to be included in your registration in order to remain a forum poster




I think Cakewalk also does something similar to that.

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people can register and pose questions about band in a box before they buy it




That could also be easily handled with temporary guest accounts.

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I can imagine a situation where someone has forgotton user name and password and its just easier to create a new one.




All websites that require a sign in have a message included at the login of “Forgot user name or password, click here”. Then they send a message and verify some personal info and then help you login. No one would be locked out.

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The biggest problem the PG forum has is spanners, 4-6 weeks ago every thred on the the whole front page was taken over by them,

Now if there was a way to stop that....




What I’m suggesting would virtually ELIMINATE spammers.

Everyone wins with verified users.