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IME it's the latter, but not because they are lazy, but because email validation is hard. The lazy regex was in the late 90's early 00's when any email that did
by skeeter2020 4y ago
IME it's the latter, but not because they are lazy, but because email validation is hard. The lazy regex was in the late 90's early 00's when any email that didn't end in .com, .edu or .net failed!
- hoosieree 4y agoThe problem is insufficient laziness. Just check that the email contains an `@` sign, and validate later by corresponding with the address. if "@" in email: send_confirmation(email)
- shakna 4y agoWhich is truly terrible. I mean, here's a valid email that was used in the early 90s: sdchema!mhtsa!australia!chris@Nosc