"Dear Wetpaint Administrators,

After successfully editing the "9th graders" page on your hosted "grammar" wiki site, I accepted your invitation to register with Wetpaint as a user.

I've tried four times this morning to create an account, but your new user registration system seems defective. It does not provide any sort of feedback after I enter all my information except to say that my chosen user name is available.

The software should at least provide some sort of welcome message indicating that I have successfully signed on or, at the very least, send an e-mail acknowledgment, but when I try to log on to the grammar.wetpaint wiki, that site reports that it does not recognize my wetpaint login name. Why make such an incredibly frustrating and apparently useless new-user page?

I am an experienced contributor to multiple language versions of Wikipedia, as well as a graphic designer, indexer, copy editor, abstracter and computer programmer. I feel I know my way around computers pretty well, but I have seldom encountered a site with such a problematic interface for new users as yours.

By the way, 'm running Mac OS X 10.4.11 on a 500-MHz G4 computer with 1.75 GB of installed RAM.

Best regards,
Erik Pedersen (erik.pedersen@shaw.ca)"