For a while I was writing for eHow, but in a recent effort to stop people from posting spam How-To's, they set up a robot to disable the accounts of spammers. Anyhow, as those of you who use e-mail spam filters know, sometimes spam makes it to the inbox and sometimes good messages get put in the spam folder. So, eHow mistaken blocked my account. (Maybe the same thing has happened to you.) You get this message:
Your account has been disabled. If you think eHow made a mistake by disabling youraccount, please email us at member_service@ehow.com.
The first thing to note that is that the email address they give is wrong. It should be member.service@ehow.com.
Update: they have since fixed the email address. The error is now:
Your account has been disabled. If you think eHow made a mistake by disabling youraccount, please email us at member.service@ehow.com.
And since they a probably dealing with hundreds or thousands of mistakenly disabled accounts, it's taking them a while. They are currently in the process of manually reviewing my account. Anyhow, I decided in that time to set up my own how-to website while I wait for them to re-enable my account. The website is:
http://www.michaelshowto.com/
I've put up most of my articles, excluding some of my most popular articles that I am going to refine and put up in the next few days. While my site won't have the scope of eHow, it should be fun nonetheless.
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