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    <p>The following email address is only 94 characters:</p> <p><strong>i.have.a.really.long.name.like.seetharam.krishnapillai@AReallyLongCompanyNameOfSomeKind.com.au</strong></p> <ul> <li>Would an organisation <em>actually give</em> you an email that long?</li> <li>If they were stupid enough to, would you actually <em>use</em> an email address like that? </li> <li>Would <em>anyone?</em> Of course not. Too long to type and too hard to remember.</li> </ul> <p>Even a 92-year-old technophobe would figure out how to sign up for a nice short gmail address, and just use that, rather than type this into your registration page.</p> <p>Disk space probably isn't an issue, but there are at least two problems with allowing user input fields to be many times longer than they need to be:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Displaying them could mess up your UI</strong> (at best they will be cut off, at worst they push your containers and margins around) </li> <li><strong>Malicious users can do things with them you can't anticipate</strong> (like those cases where hackers used a free online API to store a bunch of data) </li> </ul> <p>I like 50 chars:</p> <p>123456789.123456789.123456789@1234567890123456.com</p> <p>If one user in a million has to use their other email address to use my app, so be it.</p> <p>(Statistics show that no-one actually enters more than about 40 chars for email address, see e.g.: ZZ Coder's answer <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/1297352/87861">https://stackoverflow.com/a/1297352/87861</a>)</p>
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