Having Two Password Fields Makes No Sense

A lot of websites require you to enter your password twice when you first register. The del.icio.us screenshot below show what I mean (in case you haven't been online since ARPANET):




For years I never questioned this approach, diligently entering my password twice for each new site I registered with. After all, it was always in my best interest - an incorrectly typed password means a lost account!

Waaaaait a second... every site out there has a password recovery mechanism in place. The one that seems to be used most often is where you enter the email address you used to register and a reset password link is set to that email account. My question is... if my email address is the last ditch, reset my information, save my precious account piece of information, then why is everybody so concerned about the damn password? Facebook gets it right:



It seems to me that websites should just trust us to fill out forms correctly in one try; if we fail the password can always be reset anyways. Do everybody a favor and stop making us type a password twice.