Site Registration

If you have not yet registered, you can click on the New User link just below the Login button to bring up the registration form.

• Username: Sixteen characters or fewer. This is used to identify you to the web software when you log in.
• Full Name: This is used to verify your Mensa membership and to identify you to other registered users of the site.
• Email:
  • Members of Mensa Canada or American Mensa should use the email address that appears in their national database entry, to speed up authentication. Other cases will take longer.
  • The address you enter here will be used to send you your starting password, and to send you a rescue message if you ever forget your password, so it needs to work reasonably reliably.
  • If you share an email address with somebody else, only one of you will be able to use that address to register here.
• Confirm Email: This field is a check on your typing, so you should actually type your address a second time, rather than copy/pasting it from the Email field.
• Unnamed field: To the left of this box there is a fuzzy image containing letters and digits, some faint, some boldface. Type the boldface characters, in order from left to right, into the box. If the image is too blurry, you can click on New Image to get a different one. Note: This is an anti-spam precaution; once you are registered you will not need to do it again.

After completing the registration form, click on the Register Now! button. Once you have been authenticated the webserver will send you an email with your starting password, after which you will be able to log in. That email could come within five minutes, if I'm sitting at the computer. Usually within a couple of days (long weekends excepted) you should get either the email from the web server or an email from me saying there seems to be a problem.

N.B.: The email that the web server sends you will have this Subject line and this From line:
Subject: Vancouver Mensa Nexus: Your Account Information
From: noreply@psg.com
If your spam software is configured to delete messages from "noreply" automatically, you will never get your approval message, so please check for this in advance. You might consider configuring your software to highlight messages with "Mensa" in the subject line—I haven't yet seen spam use that word.

If several days pass after you have submitted the registration request and no reply seems to have come, you can try clicking on the lost-password link. After you fill out the lost-password form and submit it, you will either get a page indicating that your registration has not yet been approved, or else a page saying that you are being emailed instructions on how to set a new password. In the latter case, the email will come within seconds, and will be from noreply@psg.com, so watch for it.

Once you have logged in, please follow the My Account link in the left sidebar to change your password to something you can remember more easily. The usual caveats apply. For the sake of the privacy of other members, please do not use something easily guessable. For your own sake, don't use the same password as for any other account.

In the My Account area, note that there are several tabs: Preview, Username & Password, About You, etc. Please use due caution with the information you provide. The Geeklog software has a good reputation for security, but your profile (view it with the Preview tab) is visible to other members of the site.

If you need to send email to the site administrator, please include the word mensa in your subject line.

Last Updated: Friday, May 13 2011 @ 07:28 PM PDT|Hits: 1,165