Now you need a Cellphone to enter a site
anthona
enter your cellphone number. What about those of us who do not have a
cellphone? This internet is getting crappier than ever.
Rod Speed
> On some sites that u may be interested in, a box
> appears asking you to enter your cellphone number.
> What about those of us who do not have a cellphone?
You get to hang yourself.
> This internet is getting crappier than ever.
No one is holding a gun to your head and is forcing you to use it.
If someone is doing that, call the cops using your normal phone.
Michael Black
Yes it certainly is, when idiots post off-topic to newsgroups.
How does this relate to frugality?
SInce you can't find the right place to post, likely you are confused
about this thing you post about.
Michael
Chief Thracian
wrote:
>How does this relate to frugality?
Well duh...those who can't afford cell phones are quite appropriate
when requesting an alternative to cell phones, in order to enter a
contest, register, purchase, etc.
Try showing a little courtesy, it's frugal.
Al
Just how many and give an example of such a site. When they ask for a
cell phone number, it generally involves messeging or talk/data
transmission in some way. When a site asks for a cell phone number out
of the blue or for them to send you the answer to something, that's a
scam to harvest your cell phone number. It sounds like you are lucky
you don't have a cell phone number to give as you would be a prime
target for a scam.
Coffee's For Closers
x.yahoo.com>, sr...@comcast.net says...
> In article
> <208064eb-b473-4dbc...@d28g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
> The only web sites I have seen that require that sort of information are
> for scams. Do you have some examples of other web sites that require a
> cell phone in order to use them, besides of course, sites that provide
> cell phone services.
I seem to recall that Craig's List was doing some kind of
authentication like this. Users in some areas of the site were
asked for a cell phone number to receive a TXT message with a
code to enter when making their post. Basically an anti-spam
measure, and also making it hard for one person to post with
multiple handles.
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Bob F
Even if I had a cell phone, I'd have no interest in making it easy for people to
make junk calls to it, sticking me with the bill.
Chief Thracian
wrote:
>Even if I had a cell phone, I'd have no interest in making it easy for people to
>make junk calls to it, sticking me with the bill.
/Good/ point. Don't know how I missed including that; thanks!