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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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