Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex Regex

Post by tripzilch » Sun, May 26, 2013, 10:38 PM UTC

jerf wrote: post #101

jfb wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's featureful because it's old . Who routes email to UUCP any more? Just look at the sections of 5322 that are devoted to "Obsolete Syntax".

Actually, I was just thinking the core error was something else; conflating routing with identity. bob@subgenius.com is a routing instruction, 'J. R. "Bob" Dobbs' is a human identity, and '"J. R. 'Bob' Dobbs" ' is just a mess.