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  valid email addresses
 
Can we fix the registration form for the newsgroups to require that the email address provided is actually valid, as far as the RFC goes? At the very least, require that it will match /.*@.*\..*/? The reason is that SMTP breaks otherwise - see (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: valid email addresses
 
(...) So is there something I should do? Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> | (URL) CLB> (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
 
  Re: valid email addresses
 
(...) Dan: You might want to decode that regular expression into english for those not regexp literate, since you're publicly asking for a change. I THINK it means at least one @ and at least one "." that is at least one character after the at sign, (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: valid email addresses
 
(...) Oh, one other point. The approval of these is a manual process. Some of the problematic ones (in particular Jason's current one) were approved by me before I knew about this issue. I'm not sure I agree that the interface should force (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: valid email addresses
 
(...) I didn't mean to specifically point you out, Jason - if you want to change your registration, I'm sure Larry would be happy to help though. On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:17:09PM +0000, Larry Pieniazek wrote: (...) Actually, it was saying anything (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: valid email addresses
 
(...) That's still true I believe. (...) True enough, if you were sending him a note about it. (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)

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