From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-01-05T11:50:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Email Address Regex [was Re: silly regex question]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:48:48AM +0900, Bill Kelly wrote:
> 
> >From RFC 1123:
> >
> >  At every layer of the protocols, there is a general rule whose
> >  application can lead to enormous benefits in robustness and
> >  interoperability:
> >
> >    "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative
> >     in what you send"
> 
> <font size="+1"><h2>agreed in general</font>, <p>but I don't
> think everyone is in agreement that browsers' willingness to
> <html><u>render this muck<body> </u>have resulted in a net</html>
> benefit for mankind - although, i have</p> heard it argued
> </body>both ways.<head>

You could always just specifically disallow non-standards-compliant
(X)HTML, though depending on how you handle that it might end up
rejecting a lot of stuff meant for IE and OE that could be of use to you
(depending on what you find useful).

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