Re: sponsors.debian.net beta
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Ben Finney wrote:
> 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.
I get that kind of crap everytime I try to use an extended email address
with a "+" in most "professionaly run and written corporate sites"...
That said, I can't see how your [a-z0-9@.]+ address could have failed any
sort of regex that didn't break everyone else's address...
RFC2822 has the BNF for a valid email address. Anyone writing a check must
use THAT as a guide and accept 100% of what the RFC deems valid (and reject
100% of what it deems as invalid, as well).
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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