I find it remarkable and short sighted, that organisations and companies=20
in this day and age code their webforms to not recognise email addresses=20
from outside the main country they do business in.

I am unable to use a webform for ING bank in Australia as it doesn't except=
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any addresses that aren't .com or .com.au .

The Australian federal governments jobsite also won't accept 'foreign'=20
email addresses, neither do some Queensland government websites, but some=20
do.

I have had this problem before with an insurance company and my local=20
council. I must be the only person residing in this country who has, and=20
uses a foreign email address, as when I draw it to peoples attention they=20
either tell me no one else has mentioned it, or just pat me on the head to=
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mollify me.

I consider it bad coding! - Mind you there are also some US and UK websites=
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that are not able to cope with non US/UK post codes, which is just as bad.

Just as an aside the UK police incident non urgent reporting system can't=20
cope with non UK telephone numbers. Which means if you don't have a UK land=
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or mobile number don't bother reporting an incident as the system falls=20
down when contact details are required.

I wonder how I know :)

Colin=20
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