From: Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@...>
Date: 2006-01-10T08:59:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Email Address Regex

On 1/9/06, Gavin Kistner <gavin@refinery.com> wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2006, at 12:12 PM, mental@rydia.net wrote:
> > Quoting "Andreas S." <f@andreas-s.net>:
> >
> >> It is trivial to create a formally correct address that makes
> >> absolutely no sense, so what's the point of doing such a
> >> complicated and error-prone validation?
>
> For example, a friend of mine has the email address:
>
> ?@hisdomain.net
>
> (The domain above was changed to protect his privacy. But the single
> question mark as the 'username' is all that he has :)

And my regex matches that address. :)

Jacob Fugal