RE: UKNM: annoying registrations

[Alex Dunne]

Re: David Bentley's experience with hardcoded out-of-date data in online

registrations:


My university alma mater just launched an alumni network web site. A good

idea for building a marketing database, and keeping up with old friends. As

part of filling out my professional details, however, I was prompted with

three things:


1. A single line edit field in which I could type my own industry

classification.

2. A hard coded drop down list box in which I could only select my job title

from the list provided.

3. A hard coded drop down list box in which I could only select my employer

from the list of Fortune 200 firms (circa 1975) provided. 


Sites like this deserve the poor quality data they collect. 


I left the employer field blank and selected the job title of 'investigator'

in the imaginary industry of 'paranormal forensics'.



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