Stupidity
I'm in the middle of dealing with a rep from our sister company regarding a new customer. She needed to know if a few potential e-mail addresses were available. They had dots in them, which aren't allowed. The system will accept them, btu they wreak some kind of havoc with accounts, so we've been told to make all logins and e-mail addresses alphanumeric only (in case you can't tell, I work for an ISP). I e-mailed her the following: "(blah blah blah, boring work crap)...we have been instructed that all usernames and e-mail addresses should be alphanumeric only." Okay, fine. Then she writes back "What characters can be used? The customer has a concern with 'Abcde' looking like 'AbCde.'*** Is there any character we could use to separate the letters?" Ummm, no. Didja READ the e-mail?
**Made anonymous to protect the innocent.
Posted by beenie at May 6, 2003 04:26 PM