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PLEASE, Do NOT Try To LOGIN With Credentials
From Our Prior Website Unless You've Already Successfully Registered and Linked Your Account and Membership.
If You Have Not, PLEASE Read and Follow the Directions in FAQ 13 below To Avoid Login Issues.
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ALL viewers are strongly encouraged to read the information below.
We have implemented a forum and other member-only content. This page contains details about the areas and is your portal to those areas. Please reference the FAQs for answers to common questions as well as recent forum issue resolutions, ESPECIALLY FAQ 13.
Members who posted to the forums previously and who have a valid email address on file with RGS were notified that these areas are fully active. See FAQ 7 below if you didn't receive the email.
Members who have a valid email address on file with RGS were notified 3/22/2010 that these areas are fully active.
Rev. 3/23/2010
ALL Visitors Who Want To Login to This Website Who Have Not Already Followed This Procedure, PLEASE Read The Following!
All FIRST TIME access to this version of the RGS website Forums, Photo Gallery and Member-only pages must be initiated via the registration process on the RGS Forums home page and then linking their Registration to their membership record.
Members please open and follow this procedure page.
Note that this process should only be necessary one time, so please complete it to gain full advantage of your membership.
Those wishing to post only within the Public Forums, need only Register.
I've read the below FAQs and am ready to explore.
Go to the RGS Forums
Go to the RGS Photo Gallery
FAQs
The following questions are answered further down the page. Clicking a question will jump you to the answer selected but viewers are encouraged to read all questions and answers by simply scrolling down.
1. What are member-only areas?
2. What are the RGS Forums?
3. What is the RGS Photo Gallery?
4. Must I login to view the RGS website?
5. Do I need to login more than once?
6. May I use my prior username?
7. I participated previously but didn't receive an email pre-announcing the members-only availability, how do I retrieve my username?
8. How do I find the forums/photo gallery/member-only info?
9. When I click a link, why is a login page being displayed?
10. What happened to the Classifieds and Hunt Trades posted previously?
11. Why am I getting an error message about a security token missing?
12. Why am I getting an Invalid ID when I try to link my account and membership?
13. When I try to login or obtain my username after entering my email address and it doesn't recognize the login info or my email address -- Why?
1.) What are member-only areas?
They are areas available only to RGS members whose membership has not expired. In addition to the areas described above, there are pages for Management Area Program project reports and the RGS Banquet Manual, and various benefits/discounts provided to RGS members via various webpages only available to logged in members.
Currently, these include member-only discounts provided by Choice Hotels, Boyt/Bob Allen, Steiner and Ugly Dog Hunting. Login above before clicking the Read More links to be taken to pages describing the benefit and featuring links to the member-only Discount Code pages.
| Read More... | Discount Code |
| Choice Hotels | Choice Hotels Discount Code |
| Boyt / Bob Allen | Boyt/Bob Allen Discount Code |
| Steiner Binoculars | Steiner Info and Order Form Access (Discount Order Form) |
| Ugly Dog Hunting | Ugly Dog Hunting Discount Code |
An additional benefit is the ability to read/download/print project report summaries by state from the RGS Management Area Program page.
RGS banquet volunteers will be interested in the RGS Banquet Manual as well.
The Ruffed Grouse Society provides a message board/discussion area or forum for its members and site visitors. There are three major segments of the RGS Forums; Public for any Registered and logged-in user to post under several major topics, Members-only for logged in current RGS members to share information, and finally the RGS Marketplace for all to read online Classified Ads and Hunt Trades details posted by current members. Any site visitor, whether logged in or not may view all of the content of the Marketplace.
Enter Now= RGS Forums
3.) What is the RGS Photo Gallery?
Within the RGS Forums is a link to the "Gallery" (RGS Photo Gallery). Here current members of RGS may post their own photos whose thumbnail pictures can be viewed by all but only members have access to the larger photos.
Enter Now= RGS Photo Gallery
4.) Must I login to view the RGS website?
No, RGS website visitors have full access to the vast majority of the site, including joining or renewing their memberships. RGS Members wanting to take complete advantage of their memberships by participating fully in the RGS Forums (including online Classified Ads and Hunt Trades), RGS Photo Gallery and Member-only areas, or who would like to maintain their membership address, phone and email must be logged in and have performed the LINKING one time.
5. Do I need to login more than once?
No, when you login you can access all the members-only content described here and the RGS-Mart will also be able to use the Linked name and address if the same email address is used in the RGS-Mart.
To Join or Renew currently, you will need to provide all the requested information because a separate website handles our memberships.
6. May I use my prior username?
In most cases, the answer is Yes.
Prior forum posters will be notified via email of the procedure to reuse their usernames and Link their registration to their membership record in order to take full advantage of their membership.
New participants will need to Register, creating a username and password within the parameters of the forum, and then Link their registration to their membership record in order to take full advantage of their membership. Details for the one-time procedure are here.
7. I participated previously but didn't receive an email pre-announcing the members-only availability, how do I retrieve my username?
Verify that the email did not end up in your SPAM or Junk email folder. It would indicate being From: Ruffed Grouse Society Forum. Please set your email program to allow any emails from that Sender or webmaster@ruffedgrousesociety.org.
If you still can not find the email, click the Forgot Password? button at top and fill in the email address you would have been using for your Forum profile up to late July 2009*, type in the words requested by the CAPTCHA process and click the Request Username… button at the bottom. Follow the instructions in the resulting email. If it indicates there is no such email address on file, simply Register with your prior username.
*If the email address you used through late July 2009 is no longer valid, please contact the webmaster, providing your name and old and new email addresses.
8. How do I find the forums/photo gallery/member-only info?
Here are links to enter:
RGS Forums
RGS Photo Gallery
Member only areas are available elsewhere on this page.
9. When I click a link, why is a login page being displayed?
If you click any link within the RGS website and the login window is presented, you do not have permission to access that page/area without logging in or renewing your RGS membership. Use the Join & Renew Direct link at upper right to join or renew now.
10. What happened to the Classifieds and Hunt Trades posted previously?
All classifieds posted prior to March 15, 2010, were removed due to the length of time since this portion of the site was active. If any of these were yours and it should still be active, please repost it.
Some hunts were removed for the same reason. If your hunt trade offer is no longer valid, please edit it or delete it.
11. Why am I getting an error message about a security token missing?
A programming bug was discovered and corrected. Please close the RGS website but keep your browser open and delete Temporary Internet Files. In Internet Explorer 7, the menu choices are:
Tools
> Internet Options
> in the center of the window on the General tab, find "Browsing history" and click the "Delete..." button
> then in the "Temporary Internet Files" section, click "Delete files..."
> and confirm the deletion by clicking "Yes" -- if you haven't deleted these in a while it may take several minutes to finish
> click "Close" when that finishes
> then click "OK".
Now open the RGS site, or if it is already open click the "Refresh" button on your browser.
Now login, link your account and member record using the Members please open and print this procedure page and enjoy.
12. Why am I getting an Invalid ID when I try to link my account and membership?
The server that we were originally told to connect to developed a problem and was not providing accurate information. That server was changed the afternoon of Mar. 17, 2010 which has resolved the issue.
13. When I try to login or obtain my username after entering my email address and it doesn't recognize the login info or my email address -- Why?
In every case so far, the user had not used that username to post on the old RGS message board. Therefore, that record was not imported into the Forum database and thus the forum system doesn't recognize that email address. You should use the Register link to Register, entering your own username, password, email address, complete the CAPTCHA verification, and time zone then click - Register. Once registered and logged into the Forums, this one-time you should click the UserCP link and then Edit Membership Details and link your new registration to your membership using your NEW member number provided in the March 22 email. FULL procedure details are available here.
NOTE: you can NOT use the previous username and password to simply login without going thru the process to Register the first time. The second step of Linking provides access to the member-only areas.
Please contact the webmaster via email or toll free 888-564-6747 M-F 8am to 5pm Eastern time, if you need assistance.
Thank you and we hope you enjoy your MEMBERS ONLY benefits!
