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Nelson Minar
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Remembering my user ID on every website is harder than remembering my password. Sites have different rules
for what your user ID can be and they have to be unique on the site.
Is it 'nelson' or 'nelsonminar' or 'nelsonm' or 'nelson352' or
'nelson@monkey.org' or what? I try to use my email
address everywhere.
Not anymore on eBay. From my mail today:
eBay is constantly working to provide a safer and easier trading experience for our members. In our ongoing efforts to prevent unsolicited and possibly fraudulent email, we have decided to allow only User IDs that do not include an email address. This policy takes effect immediately.
So many things are wrong with this. First, they should let me
choose my own risk level. Second, they chose a crappy username for me
that I had to change; now my account is branded with the suspicious "user changed his
ID" for 30 days.
Third, they sent me this notification as an email; fraudulent emails
about your eBay account are one of the biggest
scams on the net. Finally, I suspect the real reason for all this is
to make it harder for folks to contact each other directly and bypass
eBay's auction.
The ironic thing is they support Microsoft Passport for signon. Passport keys your identity to your email address. |
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