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Website Registration and Login Required

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You can not access important and/or sensitive information like the FHA Directory or Bulletin Board without a log-in for the site.

To login to the site:

1. Click the word "Login" on the tab at the top of the screen
2. Fill in your login name and password
3. Click "Log in" button

To register to get a login (residents or non-resident owners only!):

1. If you have email spam filters be sure they allow all email from fearringtonfha.org.
2. Click the word "Login"on the tab above
3. Click the "Create an account" link at the bottom of the resulting drop-down form.
4. Click on the email verification link in the email you'll receive after you click "Create an account".
5. Site managers will verify that you are a current Fearrington resident or non-reident owner, and activate your registration if so. (NOTE: This is a manual process that may take several hours depending on timing and competing workload of your web team!) You will be notified by email when this is completed.

If you can not see a tab above with Login in it, use one of the following links:

To login: http://www.fearringtonfha.org/index.php?option=com_users&view=login

To register: http://www.fearringtonfha.org/index.php?option=com_users&view=registration

CAPTCHA

 A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is generated by a human being. (See Wikipedia.) We use this in our registration and reminder forms to obstruct evil-doers who try to register in order to pollute our site's content with ads. Our CAPTCHA is designed and maintained by Google. It is intentionally somewhat difficult to use, but is almost 100% effective in keeping spam registrations off our site. The CAPTCHA appears on the site like this:

Our CAPTCHAs show two words, one in English, and easy to read. The other not (necessarily) in English, and harder to read. What you, as a person, should be able to do is to type both words into the box provided. Spam registrations, which are computer-generated, are generally not able to type the correct letters into the box.

If you find the characters shown in the CAPTCHA to be too difficult, of you would like some that are a little clearer, you can click the little "Refresh challenge icon,  marked by the green arrow in the diagram to the left.

The form you are filling out will not be accepted until you enter the CAPTCHA characters correctly.

Gory Details

We insist that people register under their own names (the "Name" box)  using an email address that works, and that they check regularly. The "Username" can be whatever suits the new registrant, as long as it's not already in use. ("Username" is what goes in the top box in the login area above the password. "Name" is how you are identified in, for example, posts to the Bulletin Board.)

Another restriction is that new registrants must have a unique email address. A husband and wife who share an email address can not have separate accounts on the web site, but may register as, for example, "Bob and Carol Smith".

Only Fearrington residents (and non-resident owners) may register, and we do check each registration against the current FHA directory before approving it. This is the only check we make to approve a new registration.

These approvals are processed as quickly as possible, but sometimes we are not physically present, or have other pressing work or even, occasionally, are doing things unrelated to the web site, so a delay of a few hours is possible before a new account is approved.

The registration confirmation email to new enrollees contains a link to the site that the recipient must click to prove that his/her email is valid and that he/she has received an email from the site at that email address. That proves to us that the email address is valid and active. Anonymous or fake names are not allowed.

We have had attempts by spammers to activate web site accounts, and the CAPTCHA and the directory check have stopped them cold.

After the registrant clicks the link in the email they receive, an email is sent to site managers confirming that the email address has been validated.

We then try to find you in the FHA directory and if we do, we activate your registration. If we don't find you in the current directory we'll try to reach you by email or phone (if we have it) to ask for an explanation.

After we activate the registration, the system sends off another email to you, and when you receive that second email, you are cleared to logon to the site.

Please address any problems establishing an account to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .