NationStates Jolt Archive


UN Link failure

Sevenglasses
11-02-2006, 12:30
I applied to join the UN yesterday, and today at 9:46 GMT I received a mail that I have been accepted. A little more than a hour later, I opened the mail. It said I should either use the attachment (which was corrupted) or copy a line and paste it into the URL. I tried that, so that my URL then looked like

http://www.nationstates.net/join_un.cgi/nation=sevenglasses/id= (big number)

Nothing happened. What mistake did I make? I have re-applied after the failure, and I guess that means I have to wait for the next acceptance mail.
Frisbeeteria
11-02-2006, 21:57
Some emails systems chop (bignumber) onto two lines. If you didn't grab the whole thing and put it back together the way we sent it, it wouldn't work.
Sevenglasses
12-02-2006, 11:19
I re-applied and got another acceptance email now. It also doesn't work now. The id has 7 digits, and the line isn't broken in two. However, after the id there's nothing in the mail; maybe not only the attachment is corrupted, but the latter parts of the mail, too...

EDIT: strange, now using the attachment worked... yesterday, it corrupted the mail. Thanks for your help.