Mr. de Leeuw,

You are on both the ZNY  VATUSA roster and the NYARTCC roster.  I put you there myself on 6/11/11.  You are assigned to JFK.  Welcoming emails were automatically sent to the email you registered with....kd12010@live.nl.  You must check and use THIS email for all correspondence with the ARTCC.  

You also must sign up for our forums, a step that would have provided you with all the information you needed about our procedures, and give you a means to contact ARTCC staff directly, instead of posting an ill-conceived complaint in a improper location.

Check the email account listed above for messages from the ARTCC, follow the instructions contained therein, and you'll be surprised how well the system works.

Justin Friedland
DATM-NYARTCC

Here's a thought:
It might be time to re-evaluate VATSIM.
There appears to be enough unhappiness expressed in these forums to justify a re-evaluation.
My own personal experience has been telling me this as well.  
Some background:
As a kid, all I wanted to do was fly.  The Air Force would have been my home, but my eyes couldn’t make the cut back in the 50’s, when 20/20 was the absolute rule,  my family didn’t have the money to pay for private lessons and plane rental, so that was that.
Cut to the 80’s, when Microsoft came out with Flight Simulator for Apple.  Little more than a video game, but advancement came quickly, spurred on by people like me, who wanted to taste and experience as much as possible of what flying was really like.  MSFS added sophisticated navigation, ATC, and then third party developers took it the rest of the way.  I was along for the ride and it was fun, but when I discovered VATSIM it took on a whole new dimension.
On VATSIM, I could interact with live controllers, learn to plan and execute flights, fly procedures, FLY—in an environment where proficiency, knowledge and execution mattered .
It got so that flying without controllers was just no fun anymore.   It just meant aimlessly messing about the virtual sky to no purpose.  It was then that a controller suggested if I understood that, I might want to give back a little of the fun I was having, by becoming a controller myself, providing a taste of reality for other enthusiasts.
“But doesn’t it take a lot of knowledge to become an Air Traffic Controller,” I asked.  
The answer was, “yes, but we’ll train you, teach you, help you teach yourself, and when you’re ready, you’ll be on the scopes.”
Now compared to most of you, I’m a pretty old dog, but the instructors in my ARTCC were dedicated, the flash classes and other materials provided were logical and understandable, and hell, I CAN read, so with a little effort and a little time, I got my certs, and became a controller.  
A little later on, through no fault of my own, I was asked to be the DATM of the ARTCC.  In accepting, I became privy to a completely different view of what is going on.
The new paradigm I’m seeing seems to be following that of the rest of the country:  “it’s too hard to aspire to excellence.  It takes too much time and requires too much effort.  Make it easier and give it to me now.”  Certainly, I don’t see this from every new applicant, but it is a pretty prevalent attitude.  
With all the free resources literally at their fingertips, these folks barely look at the flash classes, barely read the SOPs, barely learn the airspace, and barely pass the UNTIMED, OPEN BOOK exams.   Then they want to control Center by lunchtime.  
Now, do you seriously want to turn these folks loose on whatever airspace happens to take their fancy?  Not me-- but as I read the recent forums, it seems there are those who do, in the name of “fun” and “fairness” and “openness,” all while making “excellence” a dirty word, to be equated with “discriminatory” and “unfair.”
But for me, the fun comes in the learning, and then sharing that learning in practical ways, either by flying or controlling with other live human beings who enjoy learning, as in “learning how to do it right,” as well.
If all you want to do is fly around or talk to pilots, you just need FS9 or FSX or the new Zone, and a Skype hookup with all your buddies so you can shoot the breeze.  No need to get on VATSIM.
In the end, if this is where we’re going, if this is what the Founders had in mind (though I can’t believe it is), if this is how the Board of Governors is interpreting those early guidelines, if this is the purpose of the GRP then, as I said earlier, it might be time to re-evaluate VATSIM.
Maybe it is time to get the like-minded people together and form a new network dedicated to the old principles of excellence and performance.  Maybe “quality uber alles” (thanks for the Third Reich reference, but there is nothing pejorative about aspiring to be good at what you do) is the way to go.
I’m betting that we have the technical and managerial expertise to get it done.  Hell, I’d pay for the privilege.  In fact, maybe charging $20 a person per year for access would make people really consider their level of commitment before joining up.  And don’t tell me that $20 will make it too exclusive.  Show me a 10-year old who doesn’t have an allowance of $20 anymore.  
Anyway, that’s my two cents (or $20) worth.  Can VATSIM be saved from its own success, or is it time to make the wheel round again?

Justin Friedland
DATM - ZNY