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[swoody <swoody@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure how that will work out. When you submit your user-name, I think
it links that passkey to that username, so you may need to use it to get the
points you produce. I would say you can try doing a WU or two, and see if
they show up on your stats w/o using the passkey.

-Woody

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Dayofswords <dayofswords@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:00 PM, swoody <swoody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Christer Edwards <
>> christer.edwards@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:48 PM, swoody <swoody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > So my overall advice on passkeys - don't make things complicated if you
>>> > don't *need* to. Enjoy being able to setup a client anywhere at anytime
>>> by
>>> > just knowing your user-name and team #45104 :)
>>> >
>>> > - Woody
>>>
>>> I seem to recall being able to recover the passphrase via an email
>>> form on the web, but I'm not 100%.
>>>
>>> Also, do you have any links to that nasty rumor you dropped into the
>>> channel the other day? The one regarding Linux support.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Christer Edwards
>>> .: http://ubuntu-tutorials.com :.
>>>
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>> Ah yes, now I remember. After your post, I looked up the FAQ on folding
>> passkeys [1] and you can recover your passkey if you have the same email
>> address you did when you first created it. That was my problem - I think
>> I've had about 12 different emails since then, and I had no idea which one I
>> used, not to mention that I'm sure that email account is no longer open. So
>> I couldn't recover my passkey now if I lost mine.
>>
>> Also.... haha! I'm sorry, it may have been April 1st that day! Stanford
>> isn't going to be dropping Linux clients any time soon! At least the
>> reaction wasn't as bad as in the other channel where I said Ubuntu was going
>> to drop the entire forum due to maintenance issues ;)
>>
>> - Woody
>>
>> [1] http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-passkey
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> once I am given a passkey, do I have to use it to gain points now?
> or do I have enter it to get any points under my username?
> basically, can i use my username without the passkey to get points under
> the passkey-less username(it's separate i think) and just kinda forget about
> the passkey? since I have already gotten my passkey.
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