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In order to receive your re-activation email, you must ensure that emails from postoffice@thedoghouse.org are not blocked. Remember, if you do not re-activate your account then you will not be able to log-on to the site.

Emails can be blocked by your ISP, such as AOL, or by software you have installed on your own computer. If you do not receive your re-activation email within an hour of setting up your new member account, then it is possible that the email from us has been blocked. Please check that emails from us are not blocked right now.

Some AOL users report that they do not receive re-activation emails, but other AOL users do receive them. AOL users in particular should check the settings in their "AOL Email Controls" right away to ensure that emails from postoffice@thedoghouse.org are not blocked.

You may also wish to use an alternative email address if you think you have email blocking turned on (for example, a Hotmail address).

If you are using a webmail client like Hotmail, you may receive a "Your email message has been idle and this link has become inactive" message when clicking on the link within your Hotmail message. This is an error within Hotmail and not our site. In this instance we recommend copying and pasting the entire link into a new browser window.
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Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart.
Basically this is a screening process to see if your details are being read by a human or a robot.
With the exponential growth of services and businesses over the Internet, online security has become a real concern for software developers, architects, managers, and vendors. Software programs are written to impersonate human beings, mimic their surfing patters, and imitate online activities. These "pretending to be human" programs are referred to as robots or virtual agents. Imagine a software program performing a brute force attack (exhaustive search) on your e-mail address, an attack which requires trying all possible permutations and combinations of password values until the right one is found.
Digital assets are at risk from spam bots on various fronts -- Web polls, Web registrations, automated services, and search engine submission to name a few.
See Privacy and Policy.