Re: Phone numbers and form fields

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On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:39:26AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
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> Why not provide a free-form text field that lets people enter as many
> rows as they need[*], in whatever form the loval post office expects?

Because they store the results in a database, and the database requires
all the fields. With free-form text fields, marketeers have a harder time
doing data mining.

> Probably because users are idiots, too.

That goes without saying.


Abigail

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• Philip Newton 05:39 on 04 Mar 2005
  • Abigail 08:29 on 04 Mar 2005
  • Chris Devers 15:09 on 04 Mar 2005
  • peter (Peter da Silva) 14:36 on 05 Mar 2005
  • Aaron Crane 11:01 on 07 Mar 2005
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