Very interesting. Normally I don't read blog comments, because usually they're dumb, but these aren't too bad. I think you wrote a rant that everyone can agree with. We have all been burned by validation before, and we have all been forced to write it. It's boring and annoying for everyone. (Watching the clients test the website usually consists of them typing stuff to test the validation rules. They don't check the spelling, they don't check that it works as they specified, but they do check that they can't put 999999 as their zip code. Sigh!)

You also have the right readership -- the people that will disagree with your post don't even know what a "raganwald" is.

A perfect storm, if you will, for constructive blog comments :)