[akherat]

If you're like me, when you finished your beta app you started checking the inbox you used only check a couple of times a week every day (or twice a day). So I have a funny little story that is a sad, sad representation of how geeky it can get.

Hotmail and the like is blocked while at work...not that I would use my hotmail account for something important like a beta invite anyway - it so happened that I could use the webmail page from my ISP and check email through my browser. But then the corporation instituted new firewall rules that blocked http mail. So I went to my cell phone company site where I have wireless mail, and set up my isp accounts in their web page so I could use their mail server to go get the mail from my ISP while I was at work, and see what was in the ol' inbox.

Well, it's an inelegant solution and now I get a bunch of 'you've got mail' notices on my phone. Highly annoying. So I set up my phone to only notify me if mail from a certain address arrives. Problem is, my web mail only goes out to get the ISP mail if I explicitly tell it to...so...I now have it set up with a rule on the ISP mail server in my account...if I get an email from a certain address, it forwards it to the email address of my cell phone, which will then notify me. Voila! Now I don't have to check my inbox for the message that will never come

Ah, the levels of hope and desperation that surface during beta phases... totally new levels of addiction.

[Labyrrinth]

LOL Now that's a funny story!!

[Skarlath]

But ... what if your system goes wrong ...

What if you become so reliant, so confident that you just have to wait for your phone to alert you of the recieved mail that you stop checking the inbox by all other means ...

... if your sorting system messes up that little bit, you could lose that vital email ...

*shudder*

[akherat]

Oh, I wouldn't put that much faith in technology. I deal with it 14 hours a day, 6 days a week (including at home stuff), so I still poke my head into the inbox and blow out the occasional spam, and of course, doublecheck that my new 'EverCheck' beta invite watch system hasn't broken or anything.

[Webtroll]

Is that why I've been getting beta invites on my cell phone? You need to check your settings.

[jigger]

i just wish i could get the app for beta

[Mack Bolan]

LOL... a new level of beta awarness.. LOL

I would do the same thing if i had too.. lol glad i am not the only one.

[Beikko]

Ahh yes, the lenghts we will go to. Can't wait for my invite as well. I've a bunch of stuff and hear its MILES ahead of EQ !

[Merwenn]

I just use the PDA =p works great for checking my email every so often.

[elihup]

I am sure that my productivity at work will at least double if I get invited to beta. As it is right now I spend more time checking my email than working.

[Tiesiaan]

Lol, you guys are way obsessed

[buzzard]

Haha, thats funny stuff!!

Me personally, I have reached an inner peace. I know I wont be in beta (I run Windows 2K). Knowing this fact has set my place in the universe and quieted my soul.

Just patiently waiting for release now.

[Sergo]

I've become surprisingly zen on it as well, even though I still have a chance of getting in. I've occasionally grumbled to myself that I should've lied on the questions about whether I'm the only gamer in my house or whether I share a computer, but I'm largely over that.

But now that I'm not really looking for it, hyperventilation will be the order of the day if an invite shows up in my inbox.