How to win friends
Robert Brockway
robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 12 16:44:01 UTC 2010
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, James Knott wrote:
> A few months ago, I was filling in an online form, that wouldn't accept email
> addresses, such as mine that have a period in the name part. Fortunately, I
> have another address, which I wound up using.
A couple of times I've had to enter details on websites that insist on
having the phone number in a particular format but decline to state what
that format is. Options include dashes, spaces, brackets around area code
and the plus sign.
I suppose a bunch of their sysadmins/devs are sitting back laughing over a
beer as the poor user tries in vain to enter the number in a valid format
:)
Rob
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