From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2006-01-05T04:27:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Email Address Regex [was Re: silly regex question]

Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

> Bill Kelly wrote:
>>  But whoever wrote that spec should be
>> infested with the fleas of 1000 camels.
>
> He probably already is.
>
>
> Hal

In any case, many of the syntax put in rfc822 has been obseleted in
rfc2822.

The complexity of RFC822 (year 1982) was because the need to
interoperate with wildly different systems. Consider that the RFC
title was: "STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT
MESSAGES". As if there was other Internet such that it was needed to
specify which Internet.

Consider the title for RFC2822 (year 2001): "Internet Message Format"
where it was already clear that the ARPA Internet was the winner and
thus can afford to simplify the address syntax.

YS.