Would either of you please be so kind as to cite your sources?
15 karma · joined September 12, 2017
Not entirely sure what this point is trying to achieve. Do you read a birthday field expecting a phone number 99% of the time? Should you read a phone number field expecting an email address? And at what point in that process did you decide that not having data validation on both ends was a good idea?
(edited to correct size - was 52 pB not 520 pB...)