[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#2890246 22-Mar-2022 17:16

A few years ago I found an article with "top 10 regular expressions for validating email addresses". None of them worked with the perfectly-valid 私@example.com.

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#2890247 22-Mar-2022 17:17

Its amazing the number of places that refuse to accept 🍆@richms.com as an email address despite being valid and working.

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#2890316 22-Mar-2022 20:11

Behodar:

A few years ago I found an article with "top 10 regular expressions for validating email addresses". None of them worked with the perfectly-valid 私@example.com.

I've been trying to work out if an exclamation mark in an email address if valid or not. Xero likes to throw one in to peoples invoice import email address

Parts of an Email Address and the Characters You Can Use in Them (lifewire.com)

Email address - Wikipedia

RFC 5322: Internet Message Format (rfc-editor.org)

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#2890320 22-Mar-2022 20:36

richms:
Its amazing the number of places that refuse to accept 🍆@richms.com as an email address despite being valid and working.

A friend of mine's email address, $@ai, used to get rejected a lot as well despite being perfectly valid.

It's surprising how many sites won't even accept the name+qualifier@... form for email addresses, this would be good for tracking spam sources if it wasn't for the fact that many sites/mailers don't handle it.

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#2890331 22-Mar-2022 21:15

After a Covid caused toilet paper sold out now we have a war caused rapeseed oil (but not olive oil) sold out in the city. It‘s crazy what some people have in their brain (or not).

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#2890334 22-Mar-2022 21:27

richms:
Its amazing the number of places that refuse to accept 🍆@richms.com as an email address despite being valid and working.

According to the mailoji guy, you should be able to get 🍆@🍆 as an email address.

Edited to add: Yup, it's available. Personally I'd rather have a novelty name than a novelty email address though.

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#2890340 22-Mar-2022 21:55

Rikkitic:
Geektastic: Photographer arrived to shoot the images for marketing our house.

Mid-shoot, two horses and a calf escape from a property down the road and wander through the gate onto our lawn….!!

Did they leave any souvenirs?

Hoof prints only fortunately!!

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#2890421 23-Mar-2022 08:21

Geektastic: Photographer arrived to shoot the images for marketing our house.

Mid-shoot, two horses and a calf escape from a property down the road and wander through the gate onto our lawn….!!

Are the people down the road also marketing their property?

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#2890426 23-Mar-2022 08:37

MadEngineer:

Behodar:

A few years ago I found an article with "top 10 regular expressions for validating email addresses". None of them worked with the perfectly-valid 私@example.com.

I've been trying to work out if an exclamation mark in an email address if valid or not. Xero likes to throw one in to peoples invoice import email address

Parts of an Email Address and the Characters You Can Use in Them (lifewire.com)
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Email address - Wikipedia

RFC 5322: Internet Message Format (rfc-editor.org)

Pretty relevant - this is a very entertaining, 54 minute talk about Plain Text. Really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZBa3sqTrI&ab_channel=NDCConferences

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#2890428 23-Mar-2022 08:47

Tinkerisk:

After a Covid caused toilet paper sold out now we have a war caused rapeseed oil (but not olive oil) sold out in the city. It‘s crazy what some people have in their brain (or not).

i am more worried about the shortage of Sultana Pasties, the more i cant find them , the more i want them.

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#2890430 23-Mar-2022 08:52

Lack of attention to detail - something that is all too common.

I ordered a Roon Nucleus and asked for the dealer to send it to my house when it arrived.

I checked the tracking (which of course does not actually give you the address to which it was sent for some reason) and discovered that it should have been with me 2 days ago. I rang PHC and found that it has been sent not to the address that I gave the dealer on 17th of March but to the address I moved from (and to which they would have sent things previously) 15 months ago.

So my $2000 item is now floating around in the Rural Delivery system. Maybe. Or at a house I don't have access to. Maybe. Or somewhere else. Maybe.

PHC are going to call me back - which is courierspeak for "you'll never hear from us again on this matter unless you devote hours of your day to chasing us up".

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#2890434 23-Mar-2022 09:04

MadEngineer:

I've been trying to work out if an exclamation mark in an email address if valid or not. Xero likes to throw one in to peoples invoice import email address

The "!" on the right side of @ is a bang path - in the old UUCP email it indicates which hosts to go through to get to a specific server: bang path (catb.org).

For example, I used to run a BBS. We didn't have our own domain back then (mid-90s) but we hosted email accounts. Our email was something like uucp.net!lonline and the uucp.net host knew to route emails to a specific mailbos accessible through my BBS software.

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#2890485 23-Mar-2022 09:17

Geektastic:

PHC are going to call me back - which is courierspeak for "you'll never hear from us again on this matter unless you devote hours of your day to chasing us up".

This is probably my biggest pet peeve of all; repeatedly chasing people up to ask them to do things that they already know they need to do.

I appreciate that sometimes people are too busy to do stuff but it would be nice if they would actually tell me that rather that just ignoring my emails and fobbing me off when I call.

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#2890662 23-Mar-2022 13:35

I despise modern search engines.

I searched for "formatresponse", a term used by the system I'm in.

"Showing results for format response. Search instead for formatresponse?"

If that was the end of it, it'd be annoying but not worth posting to this thread. Alas, when you tell it to specifically search for "formatresponse", it still searches for "format response".

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#2890781 23-Mar-2022 15:14

Behodar:
I despise modern search engines.

That's because they've been re-done to handle natural-language queries, "how do I kill my partner without getting caught", "how do I get a dead gerbil out", that sort of thing, so they try really hard to return some sort of result even if it's not a precise match for what you asked for. It's fuzzy matching, not grep.

Unfortunately I don't know of any grep-style search engines left, although I've found that almost anything is less bad than Google in terms of returning bogus results.

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