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#1 2009-06-22 12:37 am
Why on Earth would they have a problem with a Comcast e-mail address?
I was just in VMwareFusion mode, and I attempted to register with the gaming site, gPotato, so I could maybe play one of their stupid games. I got back an error message saying "we do not accept Comcast.net e-mail addresses."
Oh, really? We don't?
Not that I really give a damn, 'cause gPotato can suck it for all I care, but just out of curiosity, can anybody think of any plausible reason why a gaming site would have such a policy?
It just doesn't make sense. I've encountered sites, usually ones that involve something financial, that won't accept addresses from "anonymous," free e-mail services, but Comcast is neither of those things. Would could possibly be their problem?
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#2 2009-06-22 12:42 am
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Re: Why on Earth would they have a problem with a Comcast e-mail address?
If they have any Mac-compatible games, you could try reging that way to see if perhaps it has something to do with emulation. I wonder if somehow that looks like spoofing to them- normally there are ways to tell what OS you're running.
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#3 2009-06-22 2:09 am
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Re: Why on Earth would they have a problem with a Comcast e-mail address?
Make a gmail.
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#4 2009-06-22 2:24 am
Re: Why on Earth would they have a problem with a Comcast e-mail address?
I have numerous addresses from gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Kerromail, and etc, etc...
I don't care enough about gPotato to try again. I just thought it was odd, that's all. Maybe Bat's correct, and their system is so stupid that it displayed a misleading error message, making me think Comcast e-mail was their issue, when the real issue is that their anti-spoofing precautions are so damned stupid that they prevent legitimate registrations via virtual machines.
Personally, I find it obnoxious any time any Web site presumes to know what OS I'm using and then tells me I can't proceed, 'cause I'm using a Mac. This is especially obnoxious when it's a site where you know damned well that everything would work perfectly well on a Mac, but the morons who administer the site don't know that because their level of Mac literacy is out of date by several years.
Could somebody please remind me how I can get one of my Mac browsers to lie to idiot Web sites and make them think I'm using IE on a Windows box?
Thank you in advance.
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#5 2009-06-22 9:05 am
Re: Why on Earth would they have a problem with a Comcast e-mail address?
Bren wrote:
Could somebody please remind me how I can get one of my Mac browsers to lie to idiot Web sites and make them think I'm using IE on a Windows box?
Thank you in advance.
Safari / Preferences / Advanced / check "show develop menu". In the develop menu you can tell web sites things like "I'm browsing with Firefox on Windows" when it's still Safari on your Mac.
But be aware that some websites really don't work on the Mac. Because their developers are idiots.
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#6 2009-06-22 9:50 am
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Re: Why on Earth would they have a problem with a Comcast e-mail address?
You MUST use our ActiveX application that allows us to take control of your machine!
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#7 2009-06-22 12:22 pm
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Re: Why on Earth would they have a problem with a Comcast e-mail address?
sturner wrote:
You MUST use our ActiveX application that allows us to take control of your machine!
ActiveX redeemed itself when somebody made http://www.virtualapple.org/
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