This is totally nuts. Why check them at all? I get so sick of going to web
sites and trying to fill out a form only to be told that I did something
wrong, perhaps because I put dashes in my phone number or left them out. Who
really cares?
If you want valid email addresses, SEND A CONFIRMATION EMAIL, don't make
some arbitrary regex that has a) the chance of being broken in the first
place, b) will need to be changed next time a RFC comes out, c) doesn't
agree with the real world now. If the only point is to eliminate typos then
require one @ sign and let it go at that. I don't think I would even do
that.
-- Jeremy Bettis -- Hickman-Kenyon Systems, Inc. jeremyb@hksys.com----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance Woodson" <lance@cswnet.com> To: <discuss-list@opensrs.org> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 10:44 AM Subject: Re: "." before the "@"
> Robert Rivers wrote: > > > > According to RFC 822, a "." before the "@" is incorrect > > syntax. > > > > However, it's not a big deal and it's not going to break > > anything so we will allow it in the next release. > > Let's set a precedent here and adhere to standards. A small change > today might mean having to make a larger and more difficult change > tomorrow just for the sake of trying to allow non-standard "fixes".
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