E-mail validation stupidity
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A certain U.S. courier company doesn't allow capital letters in the @ part of an E-mail address. :doh:
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A certain U.S. courier company doesn't allow capital letters in the @ part of an E-mail address. :doh:
Write it low case... ;) ;P :laugh: sorry... too tempting
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Write it low case... ;) ;P :laugh: sorry... too tempting
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
I shouldn't have to!
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A certain U.S. courier company doesn't allow capital letters in the @ part of an E-mail address. :doh:
Perhaps their software vendor charges them for each letter that requires a lower case conversion? :)
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A certain U.S. courier company doesn't allow capital letters in the @ part of an E-mail address. :doh:
Capital letters are larger than lower case letters so they take up more disk space. For such a large company with so many customers, that space is adding up! This started out as a joke, but the thought occurred to me that something like that may actually have been the rationale behind it :~
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Capital letters are larger than lower case letters so they take up more disk space. For such a large company with so many customers, that space is adding up! This started out as a joke, but the thought occurred to me that something like that may actually have been the rationale behind it :~
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Sander Rossel wrote:
Capital letters are larger than lower case letters so they take up more disk space.
No. Uppercase A-Z has values from 65 to 90, while lowercase a-z has values from 97 to 122. This refers to ASCII. Uppercase can be encoded in as little as 5 bits (Baudot code) or 6 bits (Univac Fieldata; there are other 6 bit encodings as well). If space is really at premium, you should go for Morse code. Lots of people never realized that the coding table is sorted by frequency: E, the most common letter (in English), is a single 'di'. T, the second most common letter, is a single 'dah'. The third most common is I, so it is 'di di', #4 is A: 'di dah', #5 is N: 'dah di', #6 is M: 'dah dah', all the way to rarely used special characters, such as colon: 'dah dah dah di di di' or comma: 'dah dah di di dah dah'. We may argue the frequencies, and for other languages than English they may be significantly off. For special characters, usage may have changed since 1844. Nevertheless, the fundamental principle behind the Morse code is frequency sorting, to reduce the time for transmitting a message to a minimum.
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Sander Rossel wrote:
Capital letters are larger than lower case letters so they take up more disk space.
No. Uppercase A-Z has values from 65 to 90, while lowercase a-z has values from 97 to 122. This refers to ASCII. Uppercase can be encoded in as little as 5 bits (Baudot code) or 6 bits (Univac Fieldata; there are other 6 bit encodings as well). If space is really at premium, you should go for Morse code. Lots of people never realized that the coding table is sorted by frequency: E, the most common letter (in English), is a single 'di'. T, the second most common letter, is a single 'dah'. The third most common is I, so it is 'di di', #4 is A: 'di dah', #5 is N: 'dah di', #6 is M: 'dah dah', all the way to rarely used special characters, such as colon: 'dah dah dah di di di' or comma: 'dah dah di di dah dah'. We may argue the frequencies, and for other languages than English they may be significantly off. For special characters, usage may have changed since 1844. Nevertheless, the fundamental principle behind the Morse code is frequency sorting, to reduce the time for transmitting a message to a minimum.
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Because I actually mentioned "This started out as a joke, but..." :rolleyes:
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Sander Rossel wrote:
Capital letters are larger than lower case letters so they take up more disk space.
No. Uppercase A-Z has values from 65 to 90, while lowercase a-z has values from 97 to 122. This refers to ASCII. Uppercase can be encoded in as little as 5 bits (Baudot code) or 6 bits (Univac Fieldata; there are other 6 bit encodings as well). If space is really at premium, you should go for Morse code. Lots of people never realized that the coding table is sorted by frequency: E, the most common letter (in English), is a single 'di'. T, the second most common letter, is a single 'dah'. The third most common is I, so it is 'di di', #4 is A: 'di dah', #5 is N: 'dah di', #6 is M: 'dah dah', all the way to rarely used special characters, such as colon: 'dah dah dah di di di' or comma: 'dah dah di di dah dah'. We may argue the frequencies, and for other languages than English they may be significantly off. For special characters, usage may have changed since 1844. Nevertheless, the fundamental principle behind the Morse code is frequency sorting, to reduce the time for transmitting a message to a minimum.
Sander Rossel wrote:
This started out as a joke, but
If you read my message you could've saved your whole reply. Now that's a lot of bits! :D
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Because I actually mentioned "This started out as a joke, but..." :rolleyes:
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Sander Rossel wrote:
This started out as a joke, but
If you read my message you could've saved your whole reply. Now that's a lot of bits! :D
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I didn't include it myself. Having to explain, or point out explicitly, humor / parody / irony takes the sting/humor out of it. Also: I didn't succeed in finding any good translation of the 'gruk' (mini-poem) by the Danish author Piet Hein, but my un-poetic translation says He who takes a joke as nothing but a joke and sincerity as nothing but sincerely he actually understands both kinds rather poorly. (If anyone knows a better translation, please let me know!)
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I didn't include it myself. Having to explain, or point out explicitly, humor / parody / irony takes the sting/humor out of it. Also: I didn't succeed in finding any good translation of the 'gruk' (mini-poem) by the Danish author Piet Hein, but my un-poetic translation says He who takes a joke as nothing but a joke and sincerity as nothing but sincerely he actually understands both kinds rather poorly. (If anyone knows a better translation, please let me know!)
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I get it: You don't want anyone to extend on your joke, you want to have the last hand on it. That's OK with me ... But you'll have to formulate a response to this post as well of you insist on having the last word :-)
Seriously? ;P :laugh: sorry, too tempting
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A certain U.S. courier company doesn't allow capital letters in the @ part of an E-mail address. :doh:
I like when they don't allow dots. :doh:
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I didn't include it myself. Having to explain, or point out explicitly, humor / parody / irony takes the sting/humor out of it. Also: I didn't succeed in finding any good translation of the 'gruk' (mini-poem) by the Danish author Piet Hein, but my un-poetic translation says He who takes a joke as nothing but a joke and sincerity as nothing but sincerely he actually understands both kinds rather poorly. (If anyone knows a better translation, please let me know!)
He who only takes a joke as a joke and sincerity as sincerity needs to be knocked on the head.
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I like when they don't allow dots. :doh:
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so you have to spell them out :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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A certain U.S. courier company doesn't allow capital letters in the @ part of an E-mail address. :doh:
Actually, that's not a bad thing. Yes, we treat it as case-insensitive, but the original concept had lowercase letters in mind. These days, uppercase is used as a crutch because you have a really long username or domain name, or just are an old fart. :laugh: bob@bob.com - Good bobGoesToTheMarket@bob.com - Bad P.S. They probably should just lowercase it on the backend and allow for mixed cased input though.
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