Originally Posted by
Asturias56
"BTW - PPRuNe's spell-check seems to be American? Prefers "realized" over "realised")."
It belongs to a US company who sell advertising - they have dozens of similar websites - hence the spell checker and the occasional strange change in the site ....... technically & financially its run by the company but day to day by the Mods (who I understand are unpaid volunteers) - who occasionally admit they have limited influence over the techies
Oh I see. Back when I joined it was definitely UK-centric.
Please don't blame the techies - I am one. Usually it's management responsible for idiocy. Ever got annoyed with "enter bank number without spaces"? Any quarter-decent programmer knows it's one line of code to remove non-numeric characters from whatever is entered and without any loss of security. In other words if I enter my bank sort code as " (12+ 34=#56!)" it's equivalent to 123456 (or 12-34-56 if you prefer). But management somehow think that if it is more difficult for a human to enter correctly then it's more difficult for an automated script.