Ok, one more thing about ibm.com's registration system
2005-09-09T18:26:12Z
See, once I start I can't stop.
Anyway: it's been my experience that when I register at a given web site, the system sends some sort of confirmation back to the email address used for registration.
Perhaps it takes awhile, but I've received no such confirmation from the ibm.com system.
Perhaps totally mistaken, but it appears that the IBM.com registration makes no attempt to verify that whoever registers a given id really maps to an email address in the real world. The requirement probably existed, but got transformed out of the implementation.
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Jay added:
Hey, we do the best we can with what we've got.
…Monday, 12 September 2005 0:07 GMT 2005-09-12T00:07:41Z
epc added:
No, not really. I know IBM can do better than this. IBM (rather, IGS) does the minimum necessary to meet the business requirements, not necessarily the "right" thing, or even the "elegant" thing.
This registration system isn't even tied into "My Account" which is plastered across all IBM sites.
Try sitting in a customer's shoes for once.
…Monday, 12 September 2005 0:47 GMT 2005-09-12T00:47:43Z