Subject: Re: Anybody willing to share their cl-ppcre regex for validating email address
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:33:21 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <1rqdnZwiRfi8GuLanZ2dnUVZ_ournZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Christopher Browne  <cbbrowne@ca.afilias.info> wrote:
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| How tolerant to be is indeed a big question here.  
| 
| I'd be inclined to be "pretty tolerant," because intolerance is liable
| to lead to the code needing to get revved a lot, and not for
| particularly valuable reasons.
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And then there's also that venerable Internet protocol design maxim:

   Be strict in what you emit, and liberal in what you accept.


-Rob

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