[Ipg-smz] Dear Red Hat Summit reg page, riddle me this...

[Gabe Goldberg]

Same for passwords.

OF COURSE I should have guessed you needed a prime number of characters, 
between 2 and 3 punctuation marks, at least one symbol from a no-longer 
spoken language, and an audio clip from a favorite novel.

On 4/8/2019 5:23 PM, Lynn Greiner wrote:
> I had the same problem with a government website recently. Turned out it
> wanted all numbers, with no spaces or hyphens or parentheses. NOT intuitive
> for a phone number. I agree - don't just throw a stupid error, offer info so
> we can fix it! Or better yet, tell us the required format up front.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Daniel Dern
> Sent: Monday, April 8, 2019 11:44 AM
> To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
> Subject: [Ipg-smz] Dear Red Hat Summit reg page, riddle me this...
>
>
> Why, in the phone # fields, does the format-error message
>
>      The ... Phone field is in an invalid format.
>
> not include what the frigging correct format is?
>
> Yeah, not hard to guess. But if the web site knows what the right answer is,
> why not share, hmmph.
>
>
>
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