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mkehrt on May 24, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex ...

I regularly run into email fields that won't accept +. This is just an extension of that thinking.

invisible on May 24, 2013 [–]

Then that is a very poor validation attempt. Sidestepping things that have been programmed poorly in the past doesn't make for good programming practices.

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