Yeah, that's a good idea.
How hard would it be to make some characters illegal in usernames?
Dawn: Any luck? Willow: If you define luck as the absence of success--plenty.
'Touched'
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
P.M. Marc - Feb 26, 2003 9:02:45 pm PST #3267 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
John H - Feb 26, 2003 9:10:34 pm PST #3268 of 10000
I'm still a bit confused as to why we're recording, or using, people's names in the format:
John H <john@something.com>
surely if we just use the
john@something.com
bit the problem goes away?
Or, alternatively, why don't we run a quick regex over the name we're inserting, the bit in red here:
John H <john@something.com>
so that, even if my chosen username is:
J_@h.n _.*._ ~-H-~
it gets stripped back to the legal characters before being used.
Connie Neil - Feb 26, 2003 10:18:10 pm PST #3269 of 10000
brillig
once again watching in fascination as the great minds speak in unknown tongues and wave their hands in mystic configurations
RobertH - Feb 26, 2003 10:23:14 pm PST #3270 of 10000
Disaffected college student
This is all reminding me of how much I enjoyed my Perl class. I only wish I had some practical application for it at the moment. (For the fun, plus the possibility of a paycheck.)
John H - Feb 26, 2003 10:51:15 pm PST #3271 of 10000
Robert, if you're interested in Perl, you should check out Perlmonks, [link] -- lots of good stuff and helpful people. It's like here, only with less Buffy.
Jon B. - Feb 27, 2003 6:08:02 am PST #3272 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I fixed the punctuation problem on the voting page. The validation now occurs before appending the user name to the email.
Jesse - Feb 27, 2003 12:35:11 pm PST #3273 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
msbelle would like me to let y'all know that she hasn't been able to get on the board for a couple of hours, trying Mozilla and IE -- it times out. Me, I'm having no problems.
sarameg - Feb 27, 2003 1:13:13 pm PST #3274 of 10000
Apparently Deb Grabien and meara are having issues too.
Nilly - Feb 27, 2003 1:16:09 pm PST #3275 of 10000
Swouncing
she hasn't been able to get on the board for a couple of hours, trying Mozilla and IE -- it times out.
Me too, on netscape 4.7 (on Unix) - I also got a 'timed out' page.
DXMachina - Feb 27, 2003 1:20:16 pm PST #3276 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I had problems, too, as did Heather and meara.