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Allen Fair
Personal blog · girders.org/blogprogrammingweb
Allen Fair's personal blog at girders.org covers programming and web. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Don't RFC-Validate Email Addresses”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in discussions of email address validation, where commenters cite it alongside the RFC 822 standard and regex-based approaches to checking addresses.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog on my software development journey across the internet
Most-linked posts?
- Don't RFC-Validate Email Addresses3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-02-10
What Hacker News says?
The trouble is that no one actually implements the email standard from the IETF RFC documents. In fact, some people[0] even actively discourage doing so, despite there being little in the way of good reason to not. The argument essentially goes "well, users aren't going to be likely to use those characters, unless they're doing something bad, and they make it difficult to insert the email into the database." I feel…
Comment linking /blog/2013/01/31/dont-rfc-validate-email-addresses/
on “The Dropbox hack is real”Submitted REST API's are Crud as a story · 3 points
HN discussionUnfortunately, email format validation (similar to HTML email) is somewhat of a black art: http://haacked.com/archive/2007/08/21/i-knew-how-to-validate... http://girders.org/blog/2013/01/31/dont-rfc-validate-email-a... Of course one could always just go with RFC822 and this little regex: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
Comment linking /blog/2013/01/31/dont-rfc-validate-email-addresses/
on “Elixir-mail – Build composable mail messages”Submitted Don't RFC-Validate Email Addresses as a story · 2 points
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