Re: Sites requiring registration to post a comment

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From: Luke Kanies
Subject: Re: Sites requiring registration to post a comment
Date: 19:39 on 24 Mar 2005
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:33 -0500, Phil!Gregory wrote:
> A while back I tried to create a web account for Verizon.  They set some
> complexity minimums--at least six characters, at least one digit--so,
> given that, and because it was for my phone account and involves at least
> semi-access to financial information, I tried to put a decent password
> in.  It failed.  Apparently, they have complexity *maximums*, too; only
> alphanumeric characters are allowed.  Hate.
> 
> As a separate hate, they also didn't like my putting a plus sign in my
> email address.  But that's an already well-established hate.

I regularly use a password with a profanity in it, and I actually once
had a site refuse to let me use this password.  They actually went to
the trouble to check that my _password_, which would (theoretically)
never even be available in a readable format, for profanity.
Astounding.

I spent a solid couple of minutes trying to imagine the mindset of the
programmer who built that functionality.  I failed miserably.

-- 
The leader of Jamestown was "John Smith" (not his real name), under
whose direction the colony engaged in a number of activities,
primarily related to starving. -- Dave Barry, "Dave Barry Slept Here"
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