Back in the day, emails would take a long time to arrive, and would often end up in the junk mail folder. Popular sites, that others copied, would drop your ou

Back in the day, emails would take a long time to arrive, and would often end up in the junk mail folder. Popular sites, that others copied, would drop your outbound email in their MTA, which was probably pretty busy, or on a not-so-fast computer. Might take five/ten minutes to arrive. And prior to DKIM/SPF, a high proportion of emails would land in your junk box. Nowadays, you can just ask for an email addy, and it hits the user's inbox in a few seconds, and you can take them to step B from there. But that was harder back then, so you had to ask for the email twice. I like the "show password" option, instead of asking for it twice. You need to obfuscate it though for desktop computers, as you can't assume a private audience.