Re:Sites with dumb password rules
by iamnotacrook on Friday September 06, 2019 @06:07AM
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I literally couldn't apply for an American Express card about 15 years ago because my (ISP) email address was too long. I wonder why they chose to restrict it rather than go with the standard email max length; they had to put effort in to pointlessly restrict new signups. Odd.
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Back in '99 or so, there was a company called Halibut Stuff selling T-shirts at Defcon (and presumably other events) that included a free email redirect service with purchase of a shirt.
So I got a shirt that said "[email protected]"
Not too much later, I ended up working in software validation, and I broke so many login forms with that perfectly-valid address, I lost count.
Since then, Halibut Stuff dissolved and the forwarding service is long gone. If some HN reader wanted to set up a Mailinator-like service that generates absurd-yet-RFC-compliant email addresses for such testing, I think there might be a market.
Re:Sites with dumb password rules
by boring_twenties on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @08:51PM
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Like anyone would actually use such a testing service.
Until a few years ago it was fairly commonplace for sites to reject my perfectly valid addresses just because they had more than one period (i.e., a subdomain) or in one case, ended in the .us TLD.