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1. enter e-mail address 2. go to e-mail 3. refresh 4. refresh 5. count to ten... refresh again 6. maybe it's in my spam folder?.. no... 7. final refresh

by mooism2 16y ago

1. enter e-mail address 2. go to e-mail 3. refresh 4. refresh 5. count to ten... refresh again 6. maybe it's in my spam folder?.. no... 7. final refresh 8. give up in disgust minutes pass 9. e-mail finally arrives in inbox; delete it ---- I effectively use this method to log in to Amazon (I have a habit of always changing my Amazon password to something so secure I can't remember it for more than a minute at a time), and it makes me less likely to log in (I want to add this book to my wishlist, but I have to log in first? Maybe I won't bother then). To be fair Amazon password reset e-mails are usually in my inbox by the time I switch to my e-mail, but some sites are slower.

BoppreH 16y ago
It's been some time since I saw an email take more than 5 seconds to arrive.
- kristaps 16y ago
  Might not happen often, but it's a major bummer when it does. An existing example: when you recover a password for some service you do it because you want to log in NOW, not some time next week.