I complained about one pet peeve on Monday (stock certificates for startups) and can’t help myself with another one today: programs that complain about user inputs that are easily fixable. Yesterday I copied a bunch of email addresses from Jobscore and pasted them into the bcc field of an email in Outlook. The emails were comma separated. Outlook didn’t like that – and popped up a dialog saying something was wrong, including suggesting that I replace commas with semicolons. I copied the email...

I complained about one pet peeve on Monday (stock certificates for startups) and can’t help myself with another one today: programs that complain about user inputs that are easily fixable. Yesterday I copied a bunch of email addresses from Jobscore and pasted them into the bcc field of an email in Outlook. The emails were comma separated. Outlook didn’t like that – and popped up a dialog saying something was wrong, including suggesting that I replace commas with semicolons. I copied the email...