leading zeroes..

2009-10-10 Thread Darrell Fuhriman
I got an e-mail from the Economist today, saying they were moving some of their online content back behind the subscriber firewall, but since I was a print subscriber, I just needed to go and click this link and enter the code they included in the email thusly: Customer reference number:

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-10 Thread Abigail
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:55:34PM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: And don't even get me started on software stripping leading zeroes from addresses (house numbers or zipcodes can have leading zeroes, you morons.) Never, ever, load address data into excel. House numbers with leading

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-10 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
And don't even get me started on software stripping leading zeroes from addresses (house numbers or zipcodes can have leading zeroes, you morons.) Never, ever, load address data into excel. =01234 d.

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-10 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:55:34PM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: Your Customer Reference Number is 8 digits. Please refer to your most recent copy of The Economist to see it on your mailing label beginning with 0 (zero). I've seen sillier... We can't accept that credit card number because

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-10 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 10, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Roger Burton West wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:55:34PM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: Your Customer Reference Number is 8 digits. Please refer to your most recent copy of The Economist to see it on your mailing label beginning with 0 (zero). I've seen

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-10 Thread demerphq
2009/10/10 Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com: On Oct 10, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Roger Burton West wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:55:34PM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: Your Customer Reference Number is 8 digits. Please refer to your most recent copy of The Economist to see it on your mailing

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-10 Thread Philip Newton
2009/10/10 Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org: I've seen sillier... We can't accept that credit card number because it has spaces in it. Please re-enter it without spaces. I love to hate that one, too. Please format the number for computer consumption, rather than what looks readable to a

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-10 Thread Ann Barcomb
Then there's this one, found on job-hunting sites where you need to enter your work history: The company name you entered is invalid; it must start with a capital letter (seen when trying to enter a company name starting with a digit followed by a lowercase letter).