Can I give my email ID as login ID?

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  1. IL_Admin

    IL_Admin Administrator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    We strongly discourage you from doing that. This practice makes you very vulnerable to SPAM. As you participate in discussions, your email ID will be visible in every post that you make. This can be easily picked up by a web crawler and made part of a spamming database.

    If you have already created an account with your email ID as your login ID, you can request us to change it. Please private message "Induslady" with your choice of new username and we will make the change. All the posts that you have made in the old login ID will automatically show under the new login ID.

    If you have further questions, please click "Post Reply" below and ask.
     
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    gaja_lakshmim Senior IL'ite

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    I have done the same and wish to change my username. I could not PM... what do i do?
     
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    Hello Swaminarayan,

    Yes, you can send your contact details to your friends via private message system.
     
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    kSaranya8 New IL'ite

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    Hi I have done the same thing. Could you please change it to sarah please?
     
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    Gaur78 Gold IL'ite

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    Dear Saranya,

    Sorry, I think you are mistaken. You cannot give email ids like xxxx@gmail.com as your username. And now you cannot change your username as per forum rules. Please check here - How can I change my existing username?
     

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