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What's the issue with "My email is this@example.com"@example.com? Why disallow it, or use it to argue that the standard isn't good?
by Timon3 2y ago
What's the issue with "My email is this@example.com"@example.com? Why disallow it, or use it to argue that the standard isn't good?
- throw0101d 2y ago> Why disallow it, or use it to argue that the standard isn't good? Because lots of folks fat finger their own e-mail addresses and then complain that a 'site sucks' because signing up doesn't work. Sanity checking to protect people against themselves may be treated as a form of UX: it's probably why some forms insist you type (not copy-paste) your e-mail twice.
- xp84 2y agoI'm perpetually flabbergasted by how anyone thinks this "no pasting" thing is a pro-accuracy idea. As though people would be copying from a bad source. I see this a lot on forms for bank account numbers -- maybe one of the least amenable formats to visually copying down and retyping, since they're never written with delimiters or punctuation. I store them in my password manager, and then some idiotic form wants me to type my 18-digit bank account number, twice, on my phone, where I can't see more than one application at a time.
- contravariant 2y agoIt's just to illustrate that the standard is more complicated than people might realise. I think you'll have problems getting most systems to accept an email address with two @s in it, but I might be wrong. Either way it would definitely break some (not too well written) code. Though if possible I'd err on the side of being too permissive rather than too restrictive. In the end the only true way to validate an address is to send it an email.