Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Date: 14 Jan 2016 15:25:12 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net 05tjVzJy0MNQFpFUcFjTyQ/EqhGDNVMB0a2+CY1teDdcWy3TXv Cancel-Lock: sha1:QBKi45oao9J4L5pJ+7lZEiBW/eQ= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:9989 On 2016-01-14, Larry Sheldon wrote: [16 lines snipped] > Demanding that my address be entered in some sequence that differs > markedly from ordinary (and Post Office mandated) and having demanded > ZIP code before "City" or "State" or both does not populate the > following blocks. (Extra points for using it to whine about typos.) Not allowing addresses and telephone numbers from other countries (this has only bitten me when trying to order stuff from the USA - I'm in the UK). Allowing you to enter everything in an international address, but providing a "State" pulldown that has no "none" or "Not applicable" entry. Or refuses to accept that one does not have a ZIP code. Or that not all telephone numbers are NNN-NNN-NNNN. And not allowing you to access the web site at all from overseas - Yes, eBay.com, I'm talking about you. Anyone would think that the Internet only existed in the USA. Grrrr. https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/ -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 14th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3182 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.