On 14 January 2011 16:27, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't hate Google and I even don't hate Apple and/or Microsoft. I do > dislike some of their practices and/or approaches and/or offers. For > example, as you know, I am living in Israel. It means that if I had to give > Google a call to make them see that I am me, not anybody else and a > generally nice guy, only for mere purpose of opening an e-mail account, that > would be a bad practice on their side and potentially a rather big addition > to my monthly phone bill. I don't expect Google to offer me a direct line to > a human operator, like call, immediately picked up by a human, 1 min > conversation, done. I still shudder from the memory whereas I was having to > navigate some answering machine labyrinth having been stuck right before the > glorious human voice greeting me - it did not recognize me saying "yes" at > the final gate...
It never was as you have obviously been lead to believe, google simply sent a SMS to the phone number (at their cost) with a key code that needed to be fed back into the system, not a significant imposition IMO. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
