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Re:Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex Regex by jeremysmyth on Friday May 24, 2013 @11:53AM (#5763626)
If you really want to do checking of email addresses right on the signup page, include a confirmation field so they have to type it twice.

No. This puts the burden of checking email validity on every user, even perfectly capable valid users. If you're validating for edge cases (mistakes or otherwise invalid addresses), treat it as an edge case and don't annoy users who can type.

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Re:Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex Regex by wtbob on Friday May 24, 2013 @12:03PM (#5763711)
> This puts the burden of checking email validity on every user, even perfectly capable valid users.

? Whenever I hit a form which wants me to retype my address, I just triple-click to select the entire address, then middle-click to paste it into the confirmation field.

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Re:Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex Regex by pluies on Friday May 24, 2013 @01:53PM (#5764337)
Meet the airline I booked with yesterday: two email fields, with paste disallowed only on the second one.

:(

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Re:Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex Regex by tomjen3 on Friday May 24, 2013 @02:25PM (#5764514)
How do you even prevent that? You need some seriously broken code to catch a system wide short-cut.
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Re:Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex Regex by mitchty on Friday May 24, 2013 @02:30PM (#5764536)
Yet another reason I love lastpass. None of this nonsense anymore.
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Re:Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex Regex by cthackers on Friday May 24, 2013 @11:56AM (#5763662)
Perhaps every sign up page should include a "I just want to check it out" button to let you in and demo the product.
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