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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by niij on Thursday September 08, 2016 @12:42AM (#12450349)
Care to expand? As in having a first.last@example versus firstlast@example
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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by pcl on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:43AM (#12450549)
Probably the most common example these days is spouses who don't email regularly.

Once upon a time, you only got one or two email addresses from your email provider (I'm looking at you, CompuServe and AOL), so at that time it was common for everyone in a family to have a single address. Eventually they added explicit multi-user features -- IIRC, AOL went as high as 5 emails per account before my family moved on.

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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by mabcat on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:42AM (#12450546)
As in [email protected] that both parents and all the younger sprogs share. Still common as anything.
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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by vacri on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:26AM (#12450948)
One of the things I loved about the original Mad Max film was that they nicknamed their own toddler 'Sprog'...
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