Tell me more ×  Many web sites ask users to enter their email
address twice, sometimes taking the trouble to disable copy-
pasting.  What is the logic behind this? Is this e.g. a security
measure?  share|improve this question can you provide an example
of such site? –  shabunc Jul 17 '12 at 16:34 7 –  mhoran_psprep
Jul 17 '12 at 16:50 @shabunc: the example I most recently
encountered is –  9000 Jul 17 '12 at 16:51 I always thought it
was because the web designers were not very good. – 
thursdaysgeek Jul 17 '12 at 20:18 possible duplicate of What is
the purpose of "re-type your email" field? –  Carson63000 Jul 18
'12 at 5:09 add comment  5 Answers  up vote 3 down vote accepted
I suspect a lot of it is "Grandma's Cooking Secret" programming
where the programmer does it because they saw someone else do
it. It's following tradition without thinking.  There could some
logic originally behind it, such as users in 1996 not knowing
that much about how to format email addresses. It could have
been done then to avoid e