[aur-dev] [PATCH] Let the user verify their email address

[Loui Chang]

On Sun 16 Aug 2015 19:24 -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Marcel Korpel <marcel.korpel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > * "Patrick Burroughs (Celti)" <celti at celti.name> (Sun, 16 Aug 2015
> > 15:59:38 -0700):
> > > On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:54:54 +0200
> > > Marcel Korpel <marcel.korpel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On registering and updating an email address, the user has to type
> > >> their email address twice. Do not allow autocomplete and pasting in
> > >> the verification field.
> > >
> > > Please, do NOT forbid pasting in any field! Some of us (many,
> > > perhaps?) use information managers for passwords, usernames, and
> > > emails that paste or type such things in for us, specifically so that
> > > we do not get things wrong typing them in ourselves.
> >
> > I completely understand your frustration, I really hate it, too, but to
> > let someone confirm their email address allowing copy-pasting would
> > make the check useless. Then we can just drop this patch and live with
> > FS#45792.
> >
> > Any thoughts on this?
> 
> As far as I am concerned, do whatever you want. Lastpass overrides the
> autocomplete=off setting, anyway.

I'd prefer not to add ugly javascript hacks that only work in one or another
browser that only serves to babysit users.