When the field is 16 it's clear that they don't want the spaces, but if they want everything abutted then why make the field longer, and why not at least state not to enter the punctuation?
"Stupidity above and beyond the call of duty" Let me know if you need an alibi. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 2:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Fussy forms (was: ZAD ...) On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 10:29:57 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >. ... >There is so much HORRIBLE error diagnosis out there. I have been wrestling the >past week with the Google App Store. Would not take an e-mail address on a >particular page. Error message: "E-mail address is not valid." Huh? I get >e-mail there. ... > Many sites reject my RFC 822-compliiant, copied from my Contacts: "Paul Gilmartin <xxxxx...@aim.com>" *And* they case-convert the local part which RFC 822 specifies as-is. Or my phone: "(720) 382-xxxx" ("Numbers only!") Or a credit card space-separated in groups of four. (The field is only 16 characters.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
