Our free registration to join Independent.com, in 3 Quick steps.
All you need to do is provide us your E-mail address, and you may remain anonymous if you wish.
Why register?
Because it's free, and you'll be able to...
• Post your comments on local bands, movies and local restaurants.
• Post comments on stories.
• Use a bunch of nifty features we're currently cooking up.
We will not spam you or give your E-mail address to anybody. Registration is our method of keeping spam and other undesirable visitors off our site. Sorry AOL users, you (temporarily) cannot receive our registration forms - we're working on fixing this.
1. Send us your email address.
2. We will mail you back, with a click-able link. Follow the link.
3. Put your user name in the first box (no spaces!), your new password in the second, and retype it in the third box. Click, and you are ready to use the interactive features of our site.
If you forget your password at any time, the Website can mail you a new one.
Let's get started:
(You should get an email response very quickly; sometimes Hotmail and Yahoo Mail can be slow in receiving e-mails. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about this on our end.)
Further information for The Curious:
Note: If your E-mail provider, to control spam, does not allow incoming messages from senders you have not approved beforehand, you will need to set up your E-mail account to allow messages from webmaster@independent.com. Our system sends out a confirmation E-mail, but we can't determine whether your e-mail provider allows the confirmation E-mail to be accepted.
AOL users:
AOL might consider the registration E-mail we send out to be spam and prevent you from receiving it. Unfortunately, until AOL changes their E-mail mechanisms, the only work-around is to sign up for an independent.com account using a non-AOL E-mail account, such as Yahoo! or Gmail.
Even more information:
We thought long and hard about whether to require registration on certain parts of this site. Like most people, when we're surfing the Web and get smacked with a "please register" message, it's a pain in the neck.
But we ended up deciding to require registration on certain features of this site because we felt the features wouldn't be nearly as useful without it. Restaurant reviews would be practically worthless if we didn't make people own up to their words. Some blog comment threads would degenerate into anonymous name-calling without a registration requirement. And some of our upcoming customization features just plain wouldn't work without it. You get the point.
So, here's our policy: We're doing this registration thing wherever it makes sense. And we hope that makes sense to you.
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