Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Dumb!

I got a message yesterday from an old work buddy with a web address of www.reunion.com/name of person. I had just recently been thinking of that person so I type the address of the link ( never click links I don't know about ) and it took me to the web site with the name and age of the person I was interested in but then said I had to create a login to continue. So I did. It takes your name and then suggests if you have a hotmail, yahoo, gmail or AOL account to use the box and sign in to that account and you will be verified immediately. I didn't think it through very well. I never should have put my username and password into somebody else's site. We all make mistakes though. Anyhow I was then signed on to reunion.com but still couldn't really look at anything unless I upgraded to a premium membership. So I logged off and went on about other business. A few hours later I came back in and log on to my hotmail account and that's when I knew I had screwed up. My mailbox was full of rejected emails.
As soon as I realized that the rejects were all from my hotmail account I knew what had happened and deleted my membership/profile information at reunion.com and changed my account information at hotmail. I also sent a nasty note back to reunion.com basically saying THEY SUCK! Some of the addresses that got mail from me were FAA addresses I had for when I was on the road and needed to contact people before the FAA got their webmail working. I'm sure the message I received was generated the same way that the one that I generated was and that person didn't realize that everyone they had ever corresponded with was going to get an email. What a chicken shit outfit.
I have to go and clean more rejected messages in my hotmail box.

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