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This drives me insane. Lazy input boxes that only accept email domains from the big names.

by dwayne_dibley 2mo ago

bell-cot 2mo ago
Tradeoff: Failing to accept a limited number of rarer domain. Vs. all the errors caused by idiots who can't spell mgail.com, or gmail.cmo, or gmali.com, gmail.kom, or whatever the heck that thing is.
- stevesimmons 2mo ago
  Excluding people from services because you can't be bothered to handle their perfectly correct and validated email address is actually a form of discrimination. My pet hate is my bank refusing to email me bank statement notifications to mail@mydomain.com ("not a personal address"), yet their password validation and marketing emails get through quite OK. Somehow they seem incapable of acknowledging that one department of the bank has made a technical decision in conflict with other departments...
  - bell-cot 2mo ago
    > Excluding people from services because you can't be bothered to ... Yes. But like most forms of discrimination, it's probably 100% legal. Same as Chuck's Pizza Parlor refusing to deliver outside an X mile radius, and 1st National Bank refusing to use the full legal name of anyone who's name exceeds the size of their DB's 'CustomerName' field.
    - stevesimmons 2mo ago
      "Not illegal" doesn't mean we should passively accept it whether we encounter it professionally at work or personally as a customer.
      - bell-cot 2mo ago
        True. Vote your wallet as you will. Beyond that - discretion is the better part of valor, the low-level employees you can easily complain to are very unlikely to have any say in the policy, and Chuck is free to ask you to drive 40-mile pizza deliveries for the same pay and mileage as he gives at his 10-mile limit.
  - Ferret7446 1mo ago
    Is it discrimination if you decide to switch to custom power outlets in your house and then you complain that local hardware stores don't provide compatible parts?

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This drives me insane. Lazy input boxes that only accept email domains from the big names.

by dwayne_dibley 2mo ago

This drives me insane. Lazy input boxes that only accept email domains from the big names.

bell-cot 2mo ago
Tradeoff: Failing to accept a limited number of rarer domain. Vs. all the errors caused by idiots who can't spell mgail.com, or gmail.cmo, or gmali.com, gmail.kom, or whatever the heck that thing is.
- stevesimmons 2mo ago
  Excluding people from services because you can't be bothered to handle their perfectly correct and validated email address is actually a form of discrimination. My pet hate is my bank refusing to email me bank statement notifications to mail@mydomain.com ("not a personal address"), yet their password validation and marketing emails get through quite OK. Somehow they seem incapable of acknowledging that one department of the bank has made a technical decision in conflict with other departments...
  - bell-cot 2mo ago
    > Excluding people from services because you can't be bothered to ... Yes. But like most forms of discrimination, it's probably 100% legal. Same as Chuck's Pizza Parlor refusing to deliver outside an X mile radius, and 1st National Bank refusing to use the full legal name of anyone who's name exceeds the size of their DB's 'CustomerName' field.
    - stevesimmons 2mo ago
      "Not illegal" doesn't mean we should passively accept it whether we encounter it professionally at work or personally as a customer.
      - bell-cot 2mo ago
        True. Vote your wallet as you will. Beyond that - discretion is the better part of valor, the low-level employees you can easily complain to are very unlikely to have any say in the policy, and Chuck is free to ask you to drive 40-mile pizza deliveries for the same pay and mileage as he gives at his 10-mile limit.
  - Ferret7446 1mo ago
    Is it discrimination if you decide to switch to custom power outlets in your house and then you complain that local hardware stores don't provide compatible parts?