Metz's law: don't try to validate data unless you really understand and communicate what is permissible.
Take web forms that reject, e.g., valid e-mail addresses, valid ZIP+4.Please! -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of David Purdy <000000ac4b1d56b3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2019 4:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe Report meets abrupt end | Computerworld Shark Tank My long term coworker named John Jones retired a couple of years ago. It gets worse - his employer id was 0123. Every couple of years, his building access and userids were revoked due to someone misbeliving it was a test name and id. David On Monday, April 22, 2019 Steve Smith <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> wrote: Try having a really generic name... say "Steve Smith" (although my brother Michael thinks I have it easy). One place I worked at had six active employees so named. On the other hand, if the phrase "plausible deniability" comes up in your life now and then, it's not such a bad a thing. When I say you've got the wrong 'Steve Smith', nobody doubts it for a second... I can see claiming to be the other "Chris Hoelscher" to be a tougher sell ;-). sas On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 3:16 PM Chris Hoelscher <choelsc...@humana.com> wrote: > When I was consulting thru IBM Global Services in 1998-2000, there were > 2 Chris Hoelschers at IBM (really) getting the right (or wrong) email was > an adventure during those years ..... > > Chris Hoelscher > Technology Architect, Database Infrastructure Services > Technology Solution Services > Humana Inc. > 123 East Main Street > Louisville, KY 40202 > Humana.com > (502) 476-2538 or 407-7266 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Mark Jacobs > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2019 1:36 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Mainframe Report meets abrupt end | Computerworld > Shark Tank > > At $previousjob, I used to get nastygrams from Mark Jacobs - Photographer > who got upset that he received technical emails meant for me. > > Mark Jacobs > > Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. > > GPG Public Key - > https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.protonmail.ch%2Fpks%2Flookup%3Fop%3Dget%26search%3Dmarkjacobs%40protonmail.com&data=02%7C01%7Cchoelscher%40humana.com%7Cde421f1b8d8848d2b5dc08d6c7491141%7C56c62bbe85984b859e511ca753fa50f2%7C1%7C0%7C636915513975265347&sdata=tY6Z5%2FikDOfNtNtQLLiyLONcVIq6tSWk7Ful%2FWZPH2c%3D&reserved=0 > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Monday, April 22, 2019 11:33 AM, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> > wrote: > > > >It would be nice if people would report it when they get output that > they don't know what it is. > > > > Report it to whom? Often no way to tell. But yeah. > > > > Sort-of-related: In a large company, there may be two or more people > named Joe Blow. You'd think that they'd be sensitive to the existence of > each other, would forward misdirected email. You'd often be wrong. > > > > When we got acquired by a much larger company, I immediately looked, > found there were now four Phil Smiths, so I emailed the other three. One > responded cheerfully; the other two, nada. Bizarre. There was also a "me" > who'd left; I inherited his email address (which wasn't supposed to be > possible) and he had several personal things connected to that address, > which I could probably have parlayed into something profitable, had I been > so inclined. And there's also another phsiii on Gmail who doesn't know his > own email address; I could have cancelled his car appointment, his dental > appointment, and his wife's college reunion. That mail continues, is a > small source of amusement. 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