MySpace Spam? 1
It appears that my ongoing e-mail identity problems have continued to my new work account. I’ve got a reasonably cool, but terse, username (I tried for a one letter one, but apparently those are reserved for people who are cooler than me). I thought I would get away from the whole e-mail address mess with this account because it was no longer a “smith” based account id. How foolish was I?
So, now the new thing appears to be some bozo trying to create a MySpace page account thinks that they know their e-mail address. I will give MySpace the thumbs up for at least sending a confirmation e-mail, but their cancellation process is tedious to say the least. I have to click a link, which then promptly says: “you need to login”. I login. I am them asked to enter a comment and click on one of two buttons. Click on the wrong one and the account doesn’t get canceled. I then get a confirmation e-mail for the cancelation. I click on a link in that e-mail, which takes me to another page which asks me to type in my e-mail address and then once again I have to click on one of two buttons to get the account canceled. I kind of appreciate the caution in their process, but given that they haven’t even received a confirmation of the e-mail address yet, isn’t that a bit too much?
Oh, and the best part: it takes up to 48-hours to delete the account. I started the delete process on one account and was about one hour in before another account was created with my e-mail address. At this point I’m starting to wonder if the best solution is for me to create my own MySpace account with my e-mail address in hopes that this will lock out other attempts to use my e-mail address.
Despite the best efforts of anti-spam software, e-mail is precipitously close to going the way of USENET.
Seems like a reasonably clever attempt by MySpace to give you an incentive to create an account, thereby boosting their membership numbers.