RE: Shakespeare and "registration" was RE: CGIDEV2 and Sign-ups ( was Mixing GET and POST Methods) -- WEB400

and the beaut is that you can setup Eudora to download Yahoo.

Hotmail, on the other hand, is a spammers delight,
and not retrievable via Eudora/pop3.

The net result,
i use my yahoo account more than the hotmail account..



At 04:57 PM 8/7/2001, you wrote:

>I've got a test account at yahoo.  I don't ever use it to register at a
>site.  I've never, not once, received a piece of junk mail to that account.
>(Please don't take this as a challenge).  However, if I could keep my
>sister out of pyramid scams and stop forwarding my work email account...
>
>Rob Berendt
>
>==================
>A smart person learns from their mistakes,
>but a wise person learns from OTHER peoples mistakes.
>
>
> 
>
>                     "Jim 
> Langston" 
>
>                     <jlangston@cels        To:     <WEB400@midrange.com> 
>
>                     inc.com>               cc: 
>
>                     Sent by:               Fax 
> to:
>                     owner-web400@mi        Subject:     RE: Shakespeare 
> and "registration" was RE: CGIDEV2 and
>                     drange.com             Sign-ups ( was Mixing GET and 
> POST Methods)
> 
>
> 
>
>                     08/07/2001 
>
>                     02:50 
> PM 
>
>                     Please 
> respond 
>
>                     to 
> WEB400 
>
> 
>
> 
>
>
>
>
>
>I kept getting spam calling me "Nunya".  I wondered why people thought I
>was
>Nunya.  Then I got another e-mail with "my" full name, Nunya Business.
>
>Then I remembered.
>
>I have a spam account set up on yahoo mail that I use when I have to enter
>a
>valid e-mail account and authorize it.  You'd be amazed at the amount of
>spam I get there.  I just go in periodically and check for any real mail,
>maybe once a month, and then just mark all and delete.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jim Langston
>Programmer/Analyst
>Cels Enterprises, Inc.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-web400@midrange.com [mailto:owner-web400@midrange.com]On
>Behalf Of Joel Fritz
>Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 12:03 PM
>To: 'WEB400@midrange.com'
>Subject: Shakespeare and "registration" was RE: CGIDEV2 and Sign-ups (
>was Mixing GET and POST Methods)
>
>
>Falstaff said something to the effect of "He who steals my purse steals
>trash, but he who steals my good name..." I think with Falstaff it was kind
>of a tossup.
>
>My only objection to registration is the obvious market research and the
>amount of work required on some sites.  The way I handle it on sites where
>I
>really want whatever they want me to "register" to get is to lie.  It gets
>pretty easy after a while.  Name, gender, birthdate, occupation, income....
>are all whatever you say they are.  I'd like to think people are renting
>many conflicting versions of me. Some of the forms are really time
>consuming.  I can fill out the normal freebie trade magazine form on paper
>two or three times as fast as the web version.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brad Stone [mailto:brad@bvstools.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:04 AM
> > To: WEB400@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: CGIDEV2 and Sign-ups ( was Mixing GET and POST Methods)
> >
> >
> > Then why have it at all?  I can email the author, revisit
> > the site, or post on mailing lists my problems and get
> > answers.
> >
> > You know that's not the only reason they want that info.
> > Names are worth more than software in today's world.
> >
> > I'm not bent, either.  *snicker*
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 08:24:14 -0400
> >  jon.paris@e400.com wrote:
> > >
> > >  >> Small correction.  Requireing signup information
> > > isn't "free" in my
> > > book.  :)
> > >
> > > I wish I could understand why people get so bent out of
> > > shape over "signing
> > > up".  Providing the site _only_ uses it to notify me of
> > > essential updates
> > > etc. just where is the problem?  I don't sign-up for any
> > > site that doesn't
> > > give me the option to say "don't send annoying
> > > promotional stuff" but in
> > > the case of sites like easy400 the sign up basically the
> > > same as here on
> > > the list.  What's the big hairy deal?
> > >
>
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