Post in Joining a Group and Registering an Ac count Using the Web

Joining a Group and Registering an Ac count Using the Web From: Michael JasonSmith Date: 2007 Sep 25 04:46 UTC Short link

I wondered about getting the user to retype the email address, and
decided against it, for three reasons. First, four keystrokes renders
the second box a useless annoyance
  Control-A Control-C Tab Control-V
or the ⌘-key equivalents. Second, there is an equally large chance that
the user will mistype the email address in the second box, while getting
it correct in the first, once again rendering it a useless annoyance!
Finally, we can rely on auto-complete in the user's browser to assist us
to get the user's email address correct.

On my scribbles I have a provision for correcting the user's email
address, but it is at a different time to the one you suggested, Steve.
I thought about adding it to the help above
  http://groupserver.org/r/post/1KOtevr6QTbZtnO4PBMuVu
I decided against it, as adding all the error conditions complicates
matters! I also need some help with figuring out what to do in one
circumstance. The following (can) go in with Step 5 in the above help
text.

        While waiting for verification of your email address, you will
        be presented an opportunity to correct the email address. Type
        in the correct email address into the Email Address entry and
        click the Verify button. A new verification email message will
        be sent to the new address.

The nice thing about presenting the email address at this point is the
user has nothing to do *except* check his or her email address. However,
I am unsure what should happen if the user enters an existing email
address. Normally we would send out a password-reset message, but by the
Waiting for Verification stage, the user has potentially filled out the
profile, and I am loathe to throw away the user's work.

Someone tell me to stop worrying about a rare corner case…