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Re:Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex by rtp on Thursday September 06, 2012 @05:07PM (#4486240)
A better way is to check that the email the user entered matches a typical email format, and if the email doesn't match, then warn the user that he/she might've entered the wrong email address (for example writing foobar@gmail, or [email protected].).
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Re:Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex by Wicher on Thursday September 06, 2012 @05:24PM (#4486336)
I think [email protected]. should actually work. IIRC, that last dot is the root of the DNS hierarchy.

Try http://news.ycombinator.com./ ;-)

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