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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 agains

by 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.