The Real Blogger Status

Long ago, when diagnosing a problem thought to involve email, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue , we would ask a very simple question Is your Blogger account based on a GMail - or non GMail - email address? And we would carefully add Please, do not state your email address, here! The latter request was to prevent theft of peoples Blogger accounts .

Blogger Support, in observing the confusion caused by the recent email about unmigrated legacy Blogger accounts , has taken action to reduce the confusion. For the people unsure or unaware of what un migrated legacy accounts they may have, they now have a " Blogger legacy account data request " form. It's a very simple form - but you will be expected to exercise patience, before you receive actual detail.

As a Blogger blog owner, and being human, we occasionally make mistakes. If this were not so, the "Delete" key would be unused - instead of being the most worn down key on my keyboard. One commonly seen mistake, reported in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken , involves deletion of our blogs. Help me! I just deleted my blog!!! This is a cry, seen almost daily.

Every now and then, I become motivated to repeat a previous experiment . Blogger has been known to change their code, occasionally, so in some cases, that would seem to be a good idea. In one case, one very anxious blogger asked We are a school system and federal law requires us to archive all email. Therefore all external accounts are blocked. Staff and students can not use gmail, yahoo, AOL or any outside email. Only email provided by the school. The delimma is that you require one of these email addresses in order to post. We do not want an anonymous post option and do want to have valid discussions on curriculum, reporting etc. As usual, I jumped right in, with You can use any email address, for a Blogger account. then I had second thoughts.

Most web services, when you setup a new account, require you to provide an existing email address, for backdoor access. After you finish providing all of your personal details, and hit "Create my account" or whatever, you'll then see Check your email now, and reply to the message from us, so we can activate your account! You open your email, reply to the message or click on a link in the email, and you then see Congratulations, and welcome to our service! By verifying your email address, you're ensuring that, one day when you forget your password, you simply click on a link "I forgot my password!", and they email you a hint, or maybe let you reset the password from a link in the email. Since you verified the email address originally, you know that you will be getting the "forgot password" email in your inbox.