Today's tech fuckup that's making life unnecessarily difficult: Zinio associates subscriptions with e-mail addresses, which really screws with the fact that I don't use the same e-mail address on every single website.
If they said any of this up front, I could have made sure to use the same, but now I have A Problem™.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About E-Mail:
- people have one unique e-mail address.
- that e-mail address never changes.
@jmeowmeow @xgranade oh, I forgot that...
Well no, because it's annoying and also commonplace alongside discrimination for the way people setup their eMail.
@[email protected] add to that more falsehoods they believe, like: - eMail are reliably recived. - eMails will be read. - eMail is a safe and secure way to communicate. - noone uses PGP/MIME ir signs & encrypts eMails. - HTML-eMails are an acceptable way to conduct oneself. - Customers can sent and recieve an infinite amount of eMails of inifinite size at infinite speeds instantly - People will habe instant and constant access to eMails and will stop *EVERYTHING* to read an incoming eMail. - Clicking a link on an eMail is consent. - Opt-out allows selling off eMail adresses and spam people. And worst of them all: - #NoReply-Adresses are an acceptable way to communicate!
@xgranade add to that more falsehoods they believe, like:
eMail are reliably recived.
eMails will be read.
eMail is a safe and secure way to communicate.
noone uses PGP/MIME ir signs & encrypts eMails.
HTML-eMails are an acceptable way to conduct oneself.
Customers can sent and recieve an infinite amount of eMails of inifinite size at infinite speeds instantly
People will habe instant and constant access to eMails and will stop EVERYTHING to read an incoming eMail.
Clicking a link on an eMail is consent.
Opt-out allows selling off eMail adresses and spam people.
And worst of them all:
- people know their own email address
I don't have a common name, but even so, it's nuts the number of people who have apparently believed my Gmail account was their email address.
It's not even a case of expecting it to be spammed.
People have used my email address for their bank contact, for their brokerage, for their car registration, and similar things.
I could have done Bad Things to some of these people, had I been malicious.
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