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The 100% correct way to validate email addresses (medium.com/david.gilbertson)
14 points by bubble_boi on Sept 6, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Sidenote: hey people writing email validators. Gmail has been around for 12 years, longer than many of you have even been working as programmers. `+` is a valid email address character! Stop blocking me from managing my email!

I'll even sweeten the deal. Let me use `+` and I promise I won't mark your junk as spam.


Sidenote2: When collecting an email address, please let me know what you intend to do with it - in transparent detail.


What about proofy that proofy (http://proofy.io/) I myself used for verification mails




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