Christophe wrote: > 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?
I don't know. But really, it doesn't matter. The cut-and-paste operation (which is done at least partially using the mouse by most such people) needs a lot of "eye contact" with the thing cut and pasted, so there's a lot more chances to realize that the address is wrong. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
