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[Brian Kelsay]

Dave Hull wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Gerald Combs wrote:
> 
> 
>>According to RFC 2822 (and 822 before it), 
>>
>>  "I'm amazed; lots can go here!!!~`!@#$%^&*()_+=-.,<>:][{}"@[10.1.1.1]
>>
>>is a valid email address.  Kinda hard to parse or apply simple regexps to.
> 
> 
> Holy hieroglyphs! I haven't looked at the RFC (for SMTP?) for too long.
> 

I think I would still block the majority of this stuff as spammers use 
these special chars.  to identify you in their database in a reverse 
lookup to validate your address.  Allow a-z, A-Z, 0-9,. @ _ - and I 
would leave it at that.

Just my 2 pennies.
Brian

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