On Apr 1, 2004, at 11:19 AM, Michael J. Babcock wrote:

> Looks like you're right...I'll mandate the dashes instead of the

> periods....thanks a million, Derek!

If this is an interactive form, don't "mandate" anything to your

users. It is trivial to substitute dashes for the periods in code.

I really hate websites that have stuff like "Enter your credit card

number. DO NOT USE SPACES OR DASHES - digits only". That tells me that

the person who coded that site doesn't even know how to strip out

non-numeric characters before processing, and makes me wonder what

other junk they've written in the programming.

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