"Clive" wrote in message
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| In message , Chris Tolley
| writes
| Clive wrote:
|
| I have frequently been refused onto a sight and redirected to correct
my
| phone number as it's only 10 digits in total. Normally after about
two
| tries I give up, If the software is so sloppy then their service is
| likely too be the same.
|
| ... and there's absolutely no chance that you would have made a mistake
| or typing error on the screen?
|
| No, I go back to the incorrect field which is usually marked with a star
| and it's asking for a proper telephone number.

Is that the same software that refuses to accept any house number ending in
"A" (and there are quite a few) because it thinks you are living in a flat
or maisonette? Even the Post Office uses this rubbish software, as I found
out when I booked travel insurance from them. Argos does as well, resulting
in me having to fill in a form at the counter, not on their pay terminal,
when I bought a TV from them. My house number ends in "A", not because it
is a subdivision of one house but because it was built on an infill site and
the Post Office did not think it necessary to renumber every house on from
us on our side of the road. So software they use does not recognise house
numbers they have actually allocated!

There is far too much software written without checking or thinking about
whether it will actually work in the real world.
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