Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic
by bradknowles on Saturday May 29, 2021 @08:16PM
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As the Sr. Internet Mail Administrator for AOL in 1995, we quickly learned that the only real way to validate an e-mail address was to send mail to it. Even that wasn’t guaranteed, but anything less was doomed to unexpected failure and misery.
And this wasn’t a new lesson then. But at least we were smart enough to listen to the people who had learned that lesson before us.
It is now over 25+years later, and I’m sad to see that many people seem to be bound and determined to force themselves to re-learn that lesson the hard way.
And this wasn’t a new lesson then. But at least we were smart enough to listen to the people who had learned that lesson before us.
It is now over 25+years later, and I’m sad to see that many people seem to be bound and determined to force themselves to re-learn that lesson the hard way.