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"You might not need to store user email addresses" Emails and email addresses are two very different things.

by scoot 6y ago

dang 6y ago
Ok, we've addressed the topic in the title above.
strogonoff 6y ago
In technical writing within this industry, “email” is interchangeably used to mean either the protocol, an address or a message, depending on context. “If user confirmed their account by entering a confirmation code received via email or phone, that email or phone number becomes verified” is a routine sentence that will confuse no one.
- Veen 6y ago
  It is confusing when the referent is ambiguous. In the original title, email could mean either of two things, and there is no way to tell which it is. As an irrelevant aside, if you insist on justifying web content, “hyphens: auto” is your friend.
  - strogonoff 6y ago
    Ambiguity is ever-present in human language, I’d say I rarely know precisely what I will read about when clicking a link here. Confusion between “email address” and “email message” is relatively mild, in fact (post about Kafka from not long ago comes to mind). I am not the OP, and frankly I don’t believe full justification has a place on the web just yet. Hyphenation alone is rarely enough to make it bearable, and I think browsers’ rendering engines don’t do more than that.
- scoot 6y ago
  > “email” is interchangeably used to mean either the protocol, an address or a message "email" isn't a protocol. SMTP is though, and referring to RFC 5321 ("a specification of the basic protocol for Internet electronic mail transport"), section 2.3.11 [1], we see that: "As used in this specification, an "address" is a character string that identifies a user to whom mail will be sent or a location into which mail will be deposited." https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-2.3.11 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-2.3.11
  - strogonoff 6y ago
    I stand corrected on the former, should’ve written “system” instead of “protocol”. As a frequent reader of technical blogs and reference documentation, I stand by my point that “email” alone is used to mean email address quite frequently.
    - deleted 6y ago
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"You might not need to store user email addresses" Emails and email addresses are two very different things.

by scoot 6y ago

"You might not need to store user email addresses" Emails and email addresses are two very different things.

dang 6y ago

Ok, we've addressed the topic in the title above.

strogonoff 6y ago

In technical writing within this industry, “email” is interchangeably used to mean either the protocol, an address or a message, depending on context. “If user confirmed their account by entering a confirmation code received via email or phone, that email or phone number becomes verified” is a routine sentence that will confuse no one.

Veen 6y ago
It is confusing when the referent is ambiguous. In the original title, email could mean either of two things, and there is no way to tell which it is. As an irrelevant aside, if you insist on justifying web content, “hyphens: auto” is your friend.
- strogonoff 6y ago
  Ambiguity is ever-present in human language, I’d say I rarely know precisely what I will read about when clicking a link here. Confusion between “email address” and “email message” is relatively mild, in fact (post about Kafka from not long ago comes to mind). I am not the OP, and frankly I don’t believe full justification has a place on the web just yet. Hyphenation alone is rarely enough to make it bearable, and I think browsers’ rendering engines don’t do more than that.
scoot 6y ago
> “email” is interchangeably used to mean either the protocol, an address or a message "email" isn't a protocol. SMTP is though, and referring to RFC 5321 ("a specification of the basic protocol for Internet electronic mail transport"), section 2.3.11 [1], we see that: "As used in this specification, an "address" is a character string that identifies a user to whom mail will be sent or a location into which mail will be deposited." https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-2.3.11 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-2.3.11
- strogonoff 6y ago
  I stand corrected on the former, should’ve written “system” instead of “protocol”. As a frequent reader of technical blogs and reference documentation, I stand by my point that “email” alone is used to mean email address quite frequently.
  - deleted 6y ago
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