Re: Email address validation

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On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 00:01 -0400, Adam Atlas wrote:
> Dear MSN and other authors of email address validators who don't read  
> the RFC,
> 
> The ASCII plus sign is a valid character in email addresses.

Yes, even the BBC, who on face value have some rather cluefull
developers working for them, got this wrong - I haven't even bothered to
check if they have fixed it recently.

Mind there are still plenty out there that try to match something like@

     /\w\@[a-z][a-z0-9]+\.(com|org|gov|edu|net)$/i

that the '+' thing pales into insignificance.

• Email address validation Adam Atlas 05:01 on 04 Oct 2006
  • Re: Email address validation Jonathan Stowe 09:12 on 04 Oct 2006
  • Tony Finch 14:52 on 04 Oct 2006
    • Nicholas Clark 14:54 on 04 Oct 2006
      • too deep to show
    • Aaron J. Grier 04:15 on 10 Oct 2006

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