Georg Brandl a écrit : > Christophe wrote: >> Steven D'Aprano a écrit : >>> By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago, >>> Fredrik >>> Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for >>> "validating" >>> email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the user to type it >>> twice. That will protect against simple typos and input errors. >> >> I hate that thing. When I see that, I type my email once and >> copy/paste into the second edit box. This is useless AND annoying at >> the same time. > > It may be for you, but there certainly are users that misspel their > e-mail address more frequently, just like passwords. And therefore it's a > nice touch to spare both the original submitter and the owner of the > misspelled address more work.
Which proportion of the people that sometimes misspell their e-mail also use cut&paste when faced with "please type your e-mail twice" web pages? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
