On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 05:17:58AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Here's the parts I can answer right now :
| I did succeed in registering by using the telephone and calling | 1-888-382-1222. | When I did this, the hardware of the telephone system was able to | verify that I was calling from the telephone instrument that I | was registering. But I have a question about this process: | I was required to enter the telephone # manually, and then my | manual entry was checked against what the hardware said. Why? | Why not just have the hardware grab the telephone # and put it | into the database? Perhaps (and this is just speculation) it is a form of double-checking or a safeguard against some sort of proxy. I'm sure the answer lies in redundancy or security one way or another. | And what relation does my email address have to my telephone #? The only relatiionship is validating the information sent via the web form. You are used to seeing this sort of double-checking when subscribing to a mailing list. However, I doubt this is a very good check in this case. -D -- It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes at least a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/
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