This should be appended to the definition of ridiculous.
I just signed up for some kind of webinar from Microsoft about Exchange Server. After entering all my information and pressing “Continue” only to have it predictably lose all my information and make me enter it all over again (so 1995), I press continue once more and it tells me it has sent a verification email to my Hotmail account.
So, I guess even though I am now fully logged in and harnessed to my Big Brother is Watching.NET account as it so coldly demanded after expunging all my previous information, it still needs to verify that it can send me spam?
So I wait. No email. Since they have so effectively broken the back button in their signup process, I am quite reluctant to go through it again. I choose to wait. Eventually I wander over to my Hotmail junk mail and look, there it is.
Huh? You send me an email to verify that you can send spam to the email account you created for me when signing up for your Big Brother.NET account that you required I sign up for, but then you helpfully block your own verification email as well as rendering the verification link in it unclickable? Microsoft can’t manage to put their own mail servers on a Hotmail safe list?