Am burned from User Stupidity and Cluelessness.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Dear Customer,

Your account has the ability to have up to 5 email addresses attached to it. The Primary email address is also your main username, and it MUST stay, as it's also linked to our accounting/auditing/main provisioning system. The other 4 are yours to do with as you wish - so long as the email address hasn't been used before in our system, you may create it, use it, then delete it to your little tiny heart's desire.

So.

Can you now guess why it might be a good idea to create a throw-away email address when you want to sign up for some Adult sites of unknown provenance and integrity?

And can you now see why, when you signed up for the *dubiousadultservice*, giving them your Primary email address as your contact might have been a bad idea? And when they asked you to pick a username and password on their site, can you see why it might be a really really bad idea to use your PRIMARY username and password on this site for your identification??????????

And can you now guess why your email account got hijacked and why your mailbox was filled with junk pornographic spam? And why, now, despite you having all these problems, to change your main email account we will have to disconnect your system entirely, a process which is by no means simple?

No love,

Me.

Comments

[noweb4u.livejournal.com]

But on the other hand, a large chunk of hate to whoever designed a system that requires tearing everything down and starting from scratch because someone wants to change their username. :(

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Not quite as bad as it seems. At least if the primary username stays the same, and it is set up on their 'puter when they first join, then we have one guaranteed way to contact them that will not change.

It can be changed in urgent cases, but a touch of clue in our users... what am I saying????

[jecook]

::laughs at the cuntsomer::

[klytus.livejournal.com]

To quote Ron White, "You can't fix STUPID."