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Re:Let them paste passwords by vlunkr on Thursday May 18, 2017 @12:58PM (#14368880)
I know lots of developers (myself included) who thought they could write a functional email regex. Eventually you learn that in the end, the way to validate an email address is to send an email.
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Re:Let them paste passwords by OJFord on Friday May 19, 2017 @12:34PM (#14377229)
> Eventually you learn that in the end, the way to validate an email address is to send an email.

In my experience as a user, most people in the end also validate the email address by sending an email, but do no learning.

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