So I want to create two more email addrs as throw-aways. My main addr was through my ADSL provider, SBC before they went ATT. They then assimilated yahoo and dumped my email handling onto them. NOW the line is so blurred, I don't where one starts and the other ends.
After #$%^! with it for 30min. I call ATT, get xnsfrd a few times and wind up with some guy who just further ads to the confusion: He doesn't want to listen, just feed me his script.
He DOES mention that I can create sub email accts via ATT (which I didn't realize). After wading through the confusion of just what "Member ID" means (my phone number? My phone number + 4 secret digits found on my bill? or my email address), I finally get to a page that wants a lot of info about me (for a stupid throw-away email addr??? WTH?). As I'm typing in a rather strong 7-digit PS, I'm told it's not allowed. When I querry the rep, he says the only symbols allowed are _ and - that's it!!! WTH? Just how do you form a strong PW with no punctuation? This ridiculous symbol restriction doesn't sound like it's in my favor, but ATT's.
THEN down the list, it asks for the last 4 digits of my personal SSN????! More WTH? Excuse me? I told the guy NO WAY JOSE! Just who does ATT think they are? For a sub-email addr?? I politely, but firmly told the rep, this is ridiculous and for him to pass that up the chain. Then ended the call. (I later discovered under ATT's pswrd guidelines...not to use your SSN or any part. They just conflicted themselves!)
Evidently yaha/bwaha wants to send me to ATT when I log in. Can't I just create a fake yahoo email, with a .yahoo extension, that has NOTHING to do with ATT?
This privacy invasion is already way out of hand. I need an European email account where this intrusiveness and gathering personal info to sell is outlawed.
After #$%^! with it for 30min. I call ATT, get xnsfrd a few times and wind up with some guy who just further ads to the confusion: He doesn't want to listen, just feed me his script.
He DOES mention that I can create sub email accts via ATT (which I didn't realize). After wading through the confusion of just what "Member ID" means (my phone number? My phone number + 4 secret digits found on my bill? or my email address), I finally get to a page that wants a lot of info about me (for a stupid throw-away email addr??? WTH?). As I'm typing in a rather strong 7-digit PS, I'm told it's not allowed. When I querry the rep, he says the only symbols allowed are _ and - that's it!!! WTH? Just how do you form a strong PW with no punctuation? This ridiculous symbol restriction doesn't sound like it's in my favor, but ATT's.
THEN down the list, it asks for the last 4 digits of my personal SSN????! More WTH? Excuse me? I told the guy NO WAY JOSE! Just who does ATT think they are? For a sub-email addr?? I politely, but firmly told the rep, this is ridiculous and for him to pass that up the chain. Then ended the call. (I later discovered under ATT's pswrd guidelines...not to use your SSN or any part. They just conflicted themselves!)
Evidently yaha/bwaha wants to send me to ATT when I log in. Can't I just create a fake yahoo email, with a .yahoo extension, that has NOTHING to do with ATT?
This privacy invasion is already way out of hand. I need an European email account where this intrusiveness and gathering personal info to sell is outlawed.