Andrew Kantor's Place: Strange requirements at Classmates.com

Strange requirements at Classmates.com

Published 12/5/06

A friend of mine sent me a link to a page in Classmates.com. To access it, I needed to sign up. It’s free, so I did. When it asked for an e-mail address, I did what I always do: I used an address that would let me track any spam that came from their selling my address. I entered classmates at kantor.com, which is a working e-mail address.

It said, “That e-mail address is denied.” Huh? (I’ve never registered there before, so it couldn’t be that.)

I tried again, then tried “classmate” instead of “classmates.” No joy — that was denied, too.

So I set up a new alias and used that, which Classmates.com was happy to approve. So as far as it’s concerned, my e-mail address is fuckyou@kantor.com. Go figure.

The Fray

6 responses (add yours)

Miranda says:

hahahaha.
Classmates is a rip off, they charge you for everything, and no one is really on it. MySpace or Facebook is a much better social networking site.

I wish I had my own webdomain so I could give people an address like that.

December 5th, 2006 at 11:15 AM

Chris says:

Get thee to http://www.spamgourmet.com. A spamgourmet account allows you to create e-mail addresses on the fly. It also allows you to set the maximum number of messages you want to have transmitted to that address. You can reset it if you want to.

It’s a great resource and I use it all the time.

December 6th, 2006 at 9:33 AM

Richard Williams says:

I am not renewing my membership with Classmates.com because they are selling advertising space to a SCAM DATING WEBSITE headquartered in Irving,TX,that uses false claims,phony winks,and e-mails sent by employees to entice the lonely hearts to become paid members at $49.99 per month (plus another 99 cents for some unknown added benefit). This SCAM site got me for $101.96 in 28 days while an employee strung me along for over two months to collect her commission. If CLASSMATES.COM wants to aid and abet this ongoing criminal enterprise then I will not be their customer.

December 23rd, 2006 at 2:28 PM

Luke says:

I had the same “email is denied” experience on classmates. I do the same trick with my domain so I can track the selling of my email address.

January 2nd, 2007 at 6:05 PM

Cheryl says:

Another victim of Classmates.com selling out my billing info. to a 3rd party. They should feel ashamed of themselves!! I only wanted to reunite with a few lost friends. Classmates is a rip-off!!

April 27th, 2008 at 1:05 PM

gnomic says:

I haven’t had a bad experience…yet.

I recently paid for a 3 month membership to connect with an old friend I’ve been looking for for years. I’ve connected to a half dozen people that I’ve lost touch with. Other than going into my profile and turning all the crap off - including auto renewal - my experience hasn’t been that bad.

April 27th, 2008 at 1:57 PM