Comments on: Foreigners Not Welcome http://craniac.net/2007/06/24/foreigners-not-welcome/ Thoughts and photographs of a South African programmer Mon, 07 May 2012 10:32:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kristal Kraft http://craniac.net/2007/06/24/foreigners-not-welcome/#comment-5039 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:01:39 +0000 http://craniac.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/foreigners-not-welcome/#comment-5039 You bring up a good point here. Funny how timely it is, I just tried to register to vote for your photo (in the final 16 hours!) and could not do so. I lack a South African registration number! I tried to make one up, but I have no idea how many digits it takes, so sorry I cannot vote for you!

I have a real estate site in the U.S. and I made very sure anyone can register if they need my help. Many pre-done sites I’ve subscribed to lack the forsight to enable international people to register. Guess we are still not quite that global economy at the grassroots level.

BTW your photos are marvelous! I would like to suggest a few photo clubs I belong to, please go check them out.
http://www.focuscolorado.com/
http://www.mhwpc.org/

Your country is very beautiful, I rode my bike from J’burg to Cape Town one month in 2000.

Cheers!
kk

]]> By: mr know http://craniac.net/2007/06/24/foreigners-not-welcome/#comment-4648 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:10:50 +0000 http://craniac.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/foreigners-not-welcome/#comment-4648 The reason why some sites refuse to let users outside of the US to register is that there is no money to be made on foreign users if it is a US based company. It’s the truth.

]]> By: Wayne http://craniac.net/2007/06/24/foreigners-not-welcome/#comment-2693 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:29:44 +0000 http://craniac.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/foreigners-not-welcome/#comment-2693 I had the same problem the other day registering on a site. It is really annoying. I overcame the problem in the same way, using a US postal code I dug out from somewhere. I guess we can learn from this and ensure that anything we put up on the web takes into account the fact that it has a global audience.

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