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Years ago I had a regrettable experience working for an alleged telco in London that perpetrated myriad sins against humans and technology alike. Their spin on
by Jedd 7y ago
Years ago I had a regrettable experience working for an alleged telco in London that perpetrated myriad sins against humans and technology alike. Their spin on this problem was that they'd decided very early on to use email address as the PK for their homespun all-things-to-all-people system.
Shortly after they had to add an email column to address the predictable customer requests, and within a few years roughly half the user base was logging on with an email address they no longer used.
- zaphirplane 7y agoYears ago people used their ISP’s email service for email and when thru consolidation or choices their ISP changed they got a new email address. Now I find most people use an email provider and I don’t see a lot of ISP style emails
- FairKing 7y agoHave Virgin Media services (UK). They asked me to create as many email accounts as many services I signed in. I dont use those email addresses anywhere else, just to access they pages to pay bills. Who are those programmers, where are they from and how much they get paid. :-(
- FairKing 7y agoThe funniest thing is I could not use my original email as it is already used somewhere in the system and I have no clue when it happened. :-)