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Yeah but not all email addresses are RFC compliant. Plenty of mail servers accept, or can be configured to accept, non-compliant addresses.

• frobozz 16y ago
  That's not the issue at hand - the grandparent comment advocates that you shouldn't even expect a service to accept RFC-Compliant addresses. Validating against the RFC is more, not less permissive than the position held by the grandparent comment.
  • soulclap 16y ago
    Well, just go ahead and try signing up at facebook with {^|~!}@gmail.com then.
    • EliRivers 16y ago
      So because Facebook don't know what counts as a valid eMail address, everyone else has to adapt to them?
      • T-hawk 16y ago
        When that's the behavior of the 800-pound gorilla, then the answer is yes. IE6 didn't know what counts as valid DOM or CSS but everybody else adapted to it.
  • retube 16y ago
    Yup, agreed. And of course RFC compliance only specifies syntax. It would pass blah@blah.hlah.