Account Whacked At Birth

Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 5:16 pm Post subject: Account Whacked At Birth

Hello,

I just registered an account. Unfortunately, upon my very first login attempt, I was greeted with:

"Your account has been suspended"

I guess maybe this is because I use challegne/response whitelisting for my mailbox? The account name is "datavortex" and the email address is valid. Can the administrator please reactivate it?

Thanks,
DV

Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 12:18 am Post subject:

I just registered and am receiving the same message. Sad

Posts: 10 · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 1:50 pm Post subject: Same here

I had to send an email to request that Dan take me off the banned list.

He did.

Posts: 17 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Jun 02, 2003 Posts: 17

Challenge response doesn't work with any automated system.

You'll never got to join anything that requires you be sent an email.

You'll never be able to join any mailing lists.

If you are on a mailing list now, everytime anyone posts to the list they'll get annoying message from the challenge-response system.

I'm on about 30 lists and get hundreds of emails daily, and I recently blocked all the challenge-response systems at my server router border because I got tired of the messages.

If you buy anything on line you'll never get the message that your order went through.

If you belong to PayPal they'll never be able to contact you with notifications that someone paid you, used your card, etc.

If you don't belong to PayPal you won't be able to join.

If you have a webform on your own website you won't get the forms information anyone fills out.

And, in your name, the challenge response company will spam everyone who ever tries to contact you, no matter how legitimately.

You may think challenge response can help you, but those are the limitations you need to live with.

Jeff

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