The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004)

Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) by joncrane on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:58AM (#23181073)

This is intentional. It's because the people who own the site know the gmail <realemail>[email protected] trick and they prevent people using that trick.

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Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) by yeezyseezy on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:03PM (#23181147)

I've fixed this issue at a large company, and it was not intentional, but poorly written regex

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Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) by joncrane on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:26PM (#23181489)

Fair enough. I failed to apply Hanlon's razor.

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Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) by billme on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:17PM (#23181359)

Using regex on email is a horrible idea unless there are very well defined blocks - such as only allowing a given top level domain.

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