The Joy of Forgetting a Website
I’m impressed with BirthdayAlarm.com, because I haven’t thought about it in months.
What’s that? Yes, I haven’t thought about it in months, and for that reason, I’m very grateful and impressed. I signed up with BirthdayAlarm for some birthday reminders at the behest of a friend, and haven’t heard a peep out of them or any of their “peers” since. How often does that happen? I don’t care what the privacy policy looks like at most sites—if you give them a name@domain.tld they’re going to spam it and send it to all their V14gr4-pushing business associates.
How about you? Any companies you’d forgotten about since you signed up with them until they sent you something that was actually directly related to the purpose with which you signed up? Post your results here!
6 Responses to “The Joy of Forgetting a Website”
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sooz Says:
October 26th, 2005 at 02:03:37Homestead.com sent me an email letting me know that someone had signed the guestbook on a webpage I had made five years prior.
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WallyJ Says:
October 26th, 2005 at 15:11:06Woooooooooah that’s a good website to point out. i’ve never heard of it!
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Thom Says:
October 27th, 2005 at 09:06:16Five years ago, I started a bulletin board for the purpose of discussing Robinson’s _Honest to God_ with a friend. Then my password stopped working, and I couldn’t shut down the board. Then, a few years later, the porn-spammers found it, and now I routinely receive notices that “a new message has been posted to…”
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Michael Says:
October 27th, 2005 at 11:11:46haha Wow, you know, if Christians were as diligent about sharing their faith as pr0n spammers are about sharing their illicit wares (warez?), whole nations would be converted.
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clivado Says:
November 21st, 2005 at 06:24:16hello, i have a site about music, can i place a link to your wesite from mine?
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November 21st, 2005 at 22:33:24Sure, especially since you linked to your own from mine.
October 26th, 2005 at 02:03:37
Homestead.com sent me an email letting me know that someone had signed the guestbook on a webpage I had made five years prior.
October 26th, 2005 at 15:11:06
Woooooooooah that’s a good website to point out. i’ve never heard of it!
October 27th, 2005 at 09:06:16
Five years ago, I started a bulletin board for the purpose of discussing Robinson’s _Honest to God_ with a friend. Then my password stopped working, and I couldn’t shut down the board. Then, a few years later, the porn-spammers found it, and now I routinely receive notices that “a new message has been posted to…”
October 27th, 2005 at 11:11:46
haha Wow, you know, if Christians were as diligent about sharing their faith as pr0n spammers are about sharing their illicit wares (warez?), whole nations would be converted.
November 21st, 2005 at 06:24:16
hello, i have a site about music, can i place a link to your wesite from mine?
November 21st, 2005 at 22:33:24
Sure, especially since you linked to your own from mine.