This morning I found myself included in my boyfriend's family email. Dan lives in D.C., and I'm planning to go out east for his birthday next month. Coincidentally, his parents were planning a vacation to New York City that same week, so plans are underway for six of us to get together in either city.

After I pitched in my two cents to the group email (hey, one must be proactive about these sorts of things), I immediately got a system generated email from the office of Dan's sister. The email said:

"An e-mail you have just sent to [email address] is
being held until you complete a simple one-time-only registration.

To verify you are a legitimate sender, just click on the link below:
[link]

You will not have to register again for other [company name] addresses."

Now, why would I want to register my email address with a company with no instruction as to what will be done with my email address? Will it be sold to mass information vendors? Will I start receiving unwanted solicitations from the company?

Obviously, my first thought was: Well, forget it. My email wasn't that important anyway. But finally (and because I consider all business interactions to be fodder for the Agent Blog), I clicked on the link. And this is the page I saw: