I've experienced sites that allows paste in the "enter email" field, but disallows it in the "enter your email address a second time" field.
Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&[email protected] ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 1:35 PM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've encountered one that disables Paste into the email field. > > Was the developer trying to encourage typos? > > > ------------------------------------------------ > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [email protected] on behalf of > Paul Gilmartin [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 12:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Email validation (was Re: Mainframe Report meets abrupt end | > Computerworld Shark Tank) > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:39:04 -0500, John McKown wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 9:28 AM Steve Smith wrote: > > > > > The only proper way to validate an email address is to transmit a message > > > to it, and have the requestor prove it was received. Every other test is > > > wrong, but the asinine forms that require you to enter your email address > > > twice are the most wrong. > > > > Right. It's not as if it will catch an typo. At least not with me, because > > I type in my email address in #1, then cut'n'paste it into #2. I also hate > > I've encountered one that disables Paste into the email field. > > > "dark" or "obscured" password entry. It's not as if I put in passwords with > > someone standing over my shoulder watching me. And it just messes me up > > with some of the complex passwords that I use. So I type the password in on > > a text editor, then cut'n'paste it into the web site. > > I've encountered a few that disable Paste into the password field. (Ain't > Javascript wunnerful!) What of terminal emulators? > > MacOS has a switch (for WiFi passwords only) that allows typing the > password in clear. (It's not as if it weren't on a poster on the café wall.) > iPhone shows the last character of a typed password, for a couple seconds, > then it fades. But it seems to allow Paste. > > In the Bad Old Days, TSO allowed logon in a single transaction, > "user/password". > And "/" was a valid password, so I had an arrogant colleageue who used > "user//". No More. > > Why are passwords restricted to a maximum length of 8, and passphrases > restricted to a minimum length of 9? > > -- gil > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
