http://xblog.xman.org/articles/2007/10/25/myspace-spam en-us 40 hey, if it has a capital X in it, it has to be great! <p>It appears that my <a href="http://xblog.xman.org/articles/2007/10/06/know-your-e-mail-address" title="Know Your E-mail Address">ongoing e-mail identity problems</a> have continued to my new work account. I&#8217;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 &#8220;smith&#8221; based account id. How foolish was I?</p> <p>So, now the new thing appears to be some bozo trying to create a <a href="http://myspace.com/" title="Web Hosting For Idiots">MySpace page</a> 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: &#8220;you need to login&#8221;. 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&#8217;t get canceled. I then get a confirmation e-mail for the cancelation. I click on a link in <em>that</em> 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&#8217;t even received a confirmation of the e-mail address yet, isn&#8217;t that a bit too much?</p> <p>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&#8217;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.</p> <p>Despite the best efforts of anti-spam software, e-mail is precipitously close to going the way of USENET.</p> Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:34:00 +0000 urn:uuid:a019bb4f-d61e-46e7-9c3a-9c5dda8cf437 Christopher Smith http://xblog.xman.org/articles/2007/10/25/myspace-spam Computers spam myspace email verification <p>Seems like a reasonably clever attempt by MySpace to give you an incentive to create an account, thereby boosting their membership numbers.</p> Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:34:38 +0000 urn:uuid:a5fd875d-08b1-4eaa-8587-6ddb7de9ba3b http://xblog.xman.org/articles/2007/10/25/myspace-spam#comment-219