I sign up for new things online every day. Surveys, polls, etc, I’ll take a few of those from time to time. Accordingly, I tried to sign up for Perseus and their new program for creating surveys. I found it kind of fascinating how they go out of their way to identify that their email validation system may not work very good: it will end up in the spam bin (see picture).

So I decided to keep a closer eye on the system and the email did arrive into Gmail and was marked as spam, just as Perseus said it might. I clicked on the validation email and what do I see next?

Hmm, well, that’s not a good sign, but maybe it still worked before the system crashed? I tried logging in and saw this:

I’m sending a link to this post to Perseus along with the validation that wouldn’t work. Maybe they can unsuspend my new account.

Update 4/19/2005: I was finally able to validate my email successfully. I went through the steps and created a: Blog reading survey