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[mr_good_trips]

[META] "Enter email here" at perplexcity.com

[Nik_Doof]

lots of people have put all sorts in there....i feel sorry for the person who has to check it. They're gonna be kicking themselves

"hell i needed to make it check for valid email addresses only!"

(also its been brought up before, not sure if in previous threads but defo on irc)

[mr_good_trips]

Being new to this I did do a search before I posted anything and didn't turn up any references.

That's why I thought it was worth mentioning.
Feel kind of deflated to hear it had been tried

[chrome_halo]

welcome

[Nik_Doof]

[mr_good_trips]

Thats why it struck me as odd that there was no validation.
It either leads nowhere and no one gets a reply or there is some kind of filter to pull out only email addresses from the submitted gumph.

I cannot believe that someone would set up a game like this and then leave that open like it is.

May just keep typing in gibberish to annoy them!

Or would that get me into trouble.

[Wishi-san]

You can if you want but then when they just filter the email addresses and send a mass email they won't really care

It's not that unbelievable there's no validation, it's not like it's a shop or anything.

[Sasuntsi Davit]

yeah, i originally brought that up and asked if there was any way to get a look at the cgi script that handles the "e-maill address" submission, but i got 'tut tut' -ed at for saying so...kos it is kind of like peeking behind the curtain stuff.

[Nik_Doof]

hehe, i've used it to submit my mobile phone number to em as well...u never know

[Sasuntsi Davit]

the thing is, the e-mail form being on the main page is weird...

for someone who has never played an ARG before and they just come across the firebox thing or the postcard or ads, and it tells them to go to the site, they see no immediate buttons to press to go to the next page, so they would just read the letter and then submit the mail. It then takes them to the thanks you for your interest...we will contact you when the time is right..page, and thats it...most people will then just sit back and wait for the e-mail to arrive...

heck i did, if it were not for me to search google for info and coming acrosss this site and others, i wouldn't have found out that there was a button on the page and the next one...

so, what i'm trying to say is, it is a big distraction to place the e-mail field on the page if you want the user to ponder about letter clicking or looking at the source code to advance to the next page..and get "Perplexed"

[mr_good_trips]

Of course this could be another great example of over thinking something.

A talent that I have by the shed load.

I wonder what the most bizarre submission has been?

[Jay]

[Olorin]

[Shish]

> wanna see me write one in 10 minutes ?

10 minutes?!

cat all_emails.txt | grep -E "[[:alnum:]]+@[[:alnum:]]+(\.[[:alnum:]]+)+" > valid_emails.txt

If it weren't 6:45 after a night of not sleeping, I'd even check if it worked XD

[Nik_Doof]

they they will search for +<number> or 07<number> to get all the mobile numbers sumbitted