Why twice?

[frostbite]

Something trivial that's bugging me.

Quite frequently, possibly more often than not, when registering etc., you are asked to 'Confirm email' by entering it again. Why?

They don't ask for your postal address twice, so why email?

[goldfrog]

If your postal address is wrong there are enough people in the loop to probably get it delivered anyway (maybe not just at this moment), whereas you email is delivered by a machine which is dumb so the correct address is essential

[frostbite]

Since I usually cut & paste the first one it's just a time waster.

[Don't Tell Him Pike]

I used to do that, but the confirmation's just to catch possible typos. If it wastes that much time you need a shorter address!

[dazdaz]

There is an old Irish saying...........To be sure, to be sure.

[Keef]

It's to be very sure they get the right address to spam later on.

If the firm is called Bloggs Software, then they get [email protected] as the address. It's amazing how often those addresses get spammed. I then set up a mail forwarder for the offending address, to the sales@ of the offending firm.

[gizmocat]

127.0.0.1 is the internal loop-back IP address of any PC. Sending an e-mail to this address is upposed to make it disappear up it's own :mad: