[ale] restricting web input

Pat Regan thehead at patshead.com
Tue May 5 19:14:27 EDT 2009


Geoffrey wrote:
> Yeah, those were the only hacks I could come up with too.  Basically, 
> they want them to enter their email address twice to make sure it's not 
> a typo.  Thing is, how do you know the verification one isn't the typo. 
>   I always cut/paste my email address in such scenarios. ;)

If you're really paranoid about people pasting in their email address
why not just ask for it on two separate pages?  You'd have to type
pretty slow if you think it'll be faster to hit the back button to grab
a copy of their email address.

Pat

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