I registered yesterday, and since I hate giving out my email address (especially my work address), I left the email field blank.

I was allowed to register, but I wasn't able to log in because my password was sent to the Bit Void. Also, when I attempted to register with a valid email address, I wasn't able to use my first userid choice because it was already registered.

The registration script should probably check that something is entered in the email address field (it could even check if the @ is somewhere in the middle.)

Anywho, I'm glad to be here. Perl Monks are cool!

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Re: Registration bug
by vagnerr (Prior) on Sep 24, 2002 at 17:02 UTC
    You are of course perfectly safe in giving your email address to perlmonks. Afterall the monks have more spiritual things to do than spend all day sending you email about their latest make money fast scheme :-)

    However if you feal that you need to have a safe email address to use for registrations elseware then you might want to have a look at Spamgourmet which porvides a system for generating disposable email addresses.

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Re: Registration bug
by talexb (Chancellor) on Sep 24, 2002 at 18:04 UTC
    I don't know what your ISP/Web provider set up is, but you might be able to set up an alias for each questionable site that you visit. Since I'm the default recipient for my domain, I get domain E-Mail that doesn't have a specific alias or mail box. It's sometimes quite informative to see how a specific E-Mail alias has been used or :) mis-used.

    And if something bad happens, you can simply point that alias to a bit bucket and never be bothered again.

    And don't worry about this site .. we don't bite.

    --t. alex
    but my friends call me T.