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The Annoyance of Registration Email Validation

Right now, I’m trying to write reviews of two services. Both require registration to get deep into, and both registration processes require a validation email link to be clicked, and after more than an hour of waiting, neither service has managed to deliver that activation email yet. Is there some poor personal literally sending these out? Or are the tubes clogged? Or has my mail server gone to bed for the evening? Who knows. Email validation can be really annoying. I would think a captcha would be as effective at rooting out robots, which leaves little purpose for the email other than confirming that a member did indeed type their address in correctly.

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2 Responses to “The Annoyance of Registration Email Validation”

DoMyStuff.com - Outsource Your Day-to-Day Annoyances « TechFold | April 24th, 2007 at 11:32 am

[…] I have been unable to register at DoMyStuff. That registration confirmation email is up to 10 hours now - perhaps they aren’t accepting Canadian registrations or some such thing - if that is the […]
Bill | May 12th, 2007 at 6:41 am

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