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Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic by skeeter2020 on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:47PM (#27266602)
>> Don't get clever, just follow the spec.

I'd suggest being clever is wasting countless hours to handle your edge case. Or writing your own email validation in the first place.

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Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic by shard on Monday May 24, 2021 @05:38PM (#27270026)
> wasting countless hours

Isn't email validation a solved problem in that there are services or ready software which provide RFC-compliant validation? If some company is wasting countless hours to do something because of Not Invented Here syndrome, isn't that the same as some company deciding to write cryptography algorithms on their own and reaping what they sow?

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