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    I decided I want to be Giant Squid again. So I go to the name change thingy and type in Giant Squid. It tells me "You are trying to change to the old name of someone else. Please try again." That was sort of the point. What do I do?

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    Seen the same subject before, previously registered names, even your own are off limits in the UBB. Don't know if the GoA (Gods of Apolyton) can help you. Perhaps the record of the prior log on name can be deleted to free it up, but sometimes deletes like that can screw up the index in a database.

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    • #3
      Yes, they can, Provost Harrison (at least) got his old name back. I guess this "feature" is here to make sure somebody else doesn't seize your old username if you change your username. Sort of why MWHC didn't want to change his username.

      So, pray for the GoA, and actually pray for the other gods, too, if you want a quick answer.
      This is Shireroth, and Giant Squid will brutally murder me if I ever remove this link from my signature | In the end it won't be love that saves us, it will be mathematics | So many people have this concept of God the Avenger. I see God as the ultimate sense of humor -- SlowwHand

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      • #4
        Couldn't you just change to one of the other sea creatures?

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        • #5
          Try to make the change again... I may have solved your problem

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          • #6
            Didn't work.

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            • #7
              Damn... I thought I had solved it!

              Send a email to MarkG. While he does check this forum regularly, it never hurts to try multiple ways to contact him.

              Best I can offer since I can't fix the problem... sigh.

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              • #8
                wierd. i changed BACK to my original username once already. i wonder why not everyone has a problem?
                -connorkimbro
                "We're losing the war on AIDS. And drugs. And poverty. And terror. But we sure took it to those Nazis. Man, those were the days."

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                • #9
                  login changed

                  the problem was that he had changed his login again in the past, and the script was confused...
                  <font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by MarkG (edited January 03, 2001).]</font>

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                  • #10
                    This is an example of the type of thread I don't want to see from you, connor.

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                    • #11
                      Actually I had this problem reverting back to Provost Harrison, although it would allow provost Harrison, although MarkG promptly corrected this error and changed it back to a capital P...
                      Speaking of Erith:

                      "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                      • #12
                        Shoulda stuck with Squid. That was a cool name. What's the attraction to be ATG anyway?

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                        • #13
                          He has said that he always wants to change his username when he finds some cool name from history books, but then goes back to GS after a few months. And I guess you can see that that is what he has been doing.
                          This is Shireroth, and Giant Squid will brutally murder me if I ever remove this link from my signature | In the end it won't be love that saves us, it will be mathematics | So many people have this concept of God the Avenger. I see God as the ultimate sense of humor -- SlowwHand

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                          • #14
                            <center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
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                            </font><font size=1>Originally posted by GP on 01-08-2001 08:38 PM</font>
                            What's the attraction to be ATG anyway?
                            <img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>

                            Ruling a large portion of the civilized world, perhaps?
                            Gaius Mucius Scaevola Sinistra
                            Japher: "crap, did I just post in this thread?"
                            "Bloody hell, Lefty.....number one in my list of persons I have no intention of annoying, ever." Bugs ****ing Bunny
                            From a 6th grader who readily adpated to internet culture: "Pay attention now, because your opinions suck"

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