Yes agreed, But its in their court - not the developers. If they have the ability to manage the names themselves, it is their fault that they have not thought of every conceivable combination of spellings for a particular personality
I'm not saying it's the best option, but it is the option which would place an unreasonable (and unpaid) request back in their hands with the least amount of development time -----Original Message----- From: Rich Wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2003 11:20 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] "Validation" > Or, get them to provide you a list of all the names that they > don't want to > be entered. but that would be nearly impossible to use: say 'Joanna Lumley' was on the list. If I, being a seedy trickster, really wanted to enter my name as Joanna Lumley and got a message back saying that that name was not valid, then I'm probably just go for 'J0anna Lumley' (ie replace the o for a zero, or put a hyphen in there, or a space etc etc. ie, there's an almost infinite number of fake names that could be used, making any list of bad names hard to administer. Basically, you have 3 options when dealing with tricksters who provide syntactically valid names, bur which are culturally invalid: a) ignore them and just delete the bad accounts b) moderate them via human moderator before committing them to the db. c) whistle for toffee. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Smyth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 July 2003 11:16 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] "Validation" > > > Or, get them to provide you a list of all the names that they > don't want to > be entered. > > Then just check the name entered isn't in the list provided. > > You could also set up an admin tool so they could manage the names > themselves, it will provide what they want while leaving most > of the work in > their court. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rich Wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 July 2003 11:09 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] "Validation" > > > > The client seems to want a system which prevents someone > from entering > > "Mickey Mouse" as their name, and that kind of thing. I > > can't think of > > a validation scheme which would get near doing that - all > we can do is > > ask the user to confirm their details, but to me that would > put a few > > people off. > > I think the only way you could do this would be to add a > moderation stage > into your signup process, where a human has to confirm that > the details are > valid. > > There's no javascript in the world thats going to help you stop people > entering in 'Lord High Domokun of the Western Reaches' as a > random name. > > > -- > ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
