On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 00:01 -0400, Adam Atlas wrote:
> Dear MSN and other authors of email address validators who don't read
> the RFC,
>
> The ASCII plus sign is a valid character in email addresses.
Yes, even the BBC, who on face value have some rather cluefull
developers working for them, got this wrong - I haven't even bothered to
check if they have fixed it recently.
Mind there are still plenty out there that try to match something like@
/\...@[a-z][a-z0-9]+\.(com|org|gov|edu|net)$/i
that the '+' thing pales into insignificance.
