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Air Canada has a reservations computer system that asks for email addresses, so they can send out confirmation emails.
The sanity check was written by a deranged prairie lizard: it rejected my standard address as too short. In the process, it threw away the already-entered credit card information as well. Since I own my own domain, I was able to get around it by inventing a new address on the spot (alternatively, I suspect my @ livejournal dot com address would have worked), but the reservations agent told me that last week he'd hit the same problem with a long-time AOL user who had a three-character userid.
My "real" email address--the one that everything else forwards to--is a two-character username.
(We'll just gloss over the fact that I was doing this by phone because the Web booking system fell over and insisted that I must specify a gender for my "advance passenger information," even though I'd done so--and then timed out rather than processing the reservation without that information, an option it explicitly offers.)
I'm just hoping none of these poor excuses for computer programmers is anywhere near the airplanes.
The sanity check was written by a deranged prairie lizard: it rejected my standard address as too short. In the process, it threw away the already-entered credit card information as well. Since I own my own domain, I was able to get around it by inventing a new address on the spot (alternatively, I suspect my @ livejournal dot com address would have worked), but the reservations agent told me that last week he'd hit the same problem with a long-time AOL user who had a three-character userid.
My "real" email address--the one that everything else forwards to--is a two-character username.
(We'll just gloss over the fact that I was doing this by phone because the Web booking system fell over and insisted that I must specify a gender for my "advance passenger information," even though I'd done so--and then timed out rather than processing the reservation without that information, an option it explicitly offers.)
I'm just hoping none of these poor excuses for computer programmers is anywhere near the airplanes.