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Dear VMware 2006 May 31 21:57

Posted by diamond in : Random , add a comment

Today i received an email from ‘The VMware Team’. The pertinent parts went thus:

Dear Stephen Shirley,

You are receiving this email because …[you have] one or more of the follow characters in your User ID:

( ) * + , ; \ ~ / :

As of 6/22/06 VMware will no longer be accepting User IDs containing these characters.

I would like to respond thusly:

‘Dear’ VMware:
If you choose to use people’s email address as their ‘User ID’s, suddenly deciding that characters that are valid for email addresses are not valid for your website is just retarded. You either get to choose one or the other. Have a ‘nice’ day.

Steve