i was one of the original posters wondering if
.@LegalizeMarijuana.Org would work.
it sounds like this is not an accepted technical standard, and thus could
cause email disruptions because it is not universally accepted. In the
future i would hope that the RFC decision makers take a less restrictive
stance on these protocols to allow for greater creativity in this very cool
medium we are all working in.
Josh Melamed
~ don't forget about the big picture. xHale
> From: "Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>
> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:04:54 -0700
> To: "Jeremy Bettis" <jeremyb@hksys.com>, "Lance Woodson" <lance@cswnet.com>
> Cc: <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
> Subject: Re: "." before the "@"
>
> Just because YOUR system is tolerant of bad data and the recipient's
> system is tolerant of bad data doesn't mean the database should be
> polluted with bad data.
>
> D
>
> At 9:37 AM -0500 6/20/00, Jeremy Bettis wrote:
>> Because there is no need, if you hand an address to your mailer and it barfs
>> on it, it doesn't matter why it barfed.
>>
>> My point is this: most form validation doesn't help anyone. It makes it
>> harder for the customer to use and harder for the vendor to debug. If you
>> arn't going to do digitial processing on the data, then you don't need
>> validation conditions, if you are going to do processing on the data, then
>> use the same method for validation that you use for processing. You want to
>> know if an email address is valid, send an email. You want to see if a zip
>> code is valid, look it up in a city/state zip code database.
>>
>> Eventually someone will come along and give your form valid data that your
>> regex doesn't like for some reason. I'd rather not have to fix it EVER.
>> --
>> Jeremy Bettis -- Hickman-Kenyon Systems, Inc.
>> jeremyb@hksys.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Lance Woodson" <lance@cswnet.com>
>> Cc: <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
>> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 1:07 PM
>> Subject: Re: "." before the "@"
>>
>>
>>> I'd love to send a confirmation email but how can I send a confirmation
>>> email to an incorrectly typed email address?
>>>
>>> The testing of a regex should be pretty easy. Many eyes make few bugs.
>>> :-) /me knocks on wood.
>>>
>>> RFCs are requests for comments. They aren't automatically standards so
>>> just because someone publishes one, doesn't mean the standard changes.
>>> I can't fathom the standard for email addresses changing any time soon.
>>>
>>> Also, why would you not even require an @? I'm not trying to start a
>>> flame war; I've just never heard an argument for not requiring an @.
>
>
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