Checking if email is valid
gene heskett
gheskett at shentel.net
Sun Nov 5 09:56:00 EST 2023
On 11/5/23 05:32, D'Arcy Cain via Python-list wrote:
> On 2023-11-05 00:39, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote:
>> Definitely. Syntactic e-mail address "validation" is one of the most
>> useless and widely broken things on the Interwebs. People who do
>> anything other than require an '@' (and optionally make you enter the
>> same @-containing string twice) are deluding themselves.
>
> And don't get me started on phone number validation. The most annoying
> thing to me, though, is sites that reject names that have an apostrophe
> in them. I hate being told that my name, that I have been using for
> over seventy years, is invalid.
>
> OK, now that I am started, what else? Oh yah. Look at your credit
> card. The number has spaces in it. Why do I have to remove them. If
> you don't like them then you are a computer, just remove them.
>
> When do we stop working for computers and have the computers start
> working for us?
>
If this is being voted on, pretend you are in Georgia, vote often and
early. Best question of the century.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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