On 17-Aug-2005, Neil McGovern wrote: > http://sponsors.debian.net is now around 90% finished, so I'm looking > for people to try and break it :) <div style="praise" priority="important"> Thanks very much for this. It's great to see so many useful services cropping up to help prospective package managers, and it's even better that they're complementary. Great stuff. </div> > So, please pop along and register. I'd love to. It doesn't like my email address though. <div style="rant" priority="yawn"> This has happened at at least a dozen sites recently. I'm getting really sick of this. Is everyone using the same frigging regex to "validate" email addresses? Well, whatever the cause, it's *wrong*. Please stop "validating" email addresses against a regex. The correct way is to use whatever email address the user gives, and then attempt to send an email to that address. If that fails, then you have a much better indication of an invalid email address, because the MTA -- which knows much more about valid email addresses than your half-arsed regex -- has tried and failed, which is the only time it's "invalid". </div> Phew. -- \ "Having sex with Rachel is like going to a concert. She yells a | `\ lot, and throws frisbees around the room; and when she wants | _o__) more, she lights a match." -- Steven Wright | Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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