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ragica@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
As a person who ages ago created and single letter (before the @) email address thinking myself clever and efficient… I’m amazed and distressed how many forms have insisted that my email address is invalid.
rolling_resistance@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Some developers prefer using half-baked regexes from stackoverflow, rather than reputable libraries for email address validation.
barsoap@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Hmm. Why am I mildly surprised that I can’t find anything non-regular about the syntax. There’s nested comments but that’s part of MIME quoting, not the actual address format, so it’s reasonable to not accept those in an HTML entry field because HTML is many things, but not MIME.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 5 months ago
barsoap@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Could be that they get a huge amounts of bounces from those kinds of addresses. I’m sure at least half of Germany is using
a@bc.de
as the go-to “I don’t wanna give out my email” address.