Timeline for How far should I take email address validation when the cost of bad emails is high?
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| Sep 23, 2016 at 8:34 | comment | added | Bent | Making sure an email address is valid or making sure it is the correct one is two highly different things. Don't invest anything in solving the wrong problem. | |
| Aug 11, 2011 at 22:01 | comment | added | Mike M. Lin | Thanks for the link. This article is what got me thinking about this question in the first place. What I got from it is that in practice it doesn't make sense to allow the full set of crazy possible email addresses, because it's more likely someone mistyped an email address that doesn't match a much-simplified pattern. | |
| Aug 11, 2011 at 20:48 | comment | added | Mike M. Lin | Hah! Taking a hard line like that would be great. Unfortunately I don't really work for the electric & gas company, or any other monopolistic organization that could get away with that. My guess is that you'd be the first person to say, "Did you get my signature when we agreed to that over the phone?" | |
| Aug 11, 2011 at 20:44 | history | answered | Chris Cudmore | CC BY-SA 3.0 |