I also reached out to them on Twitter but they directed me to this form. I followed up with them on Twitter with what happened in this screenshot but they are now ignoring me.

  • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    11 months ago

    Let’s see your regex pattern that covers every possible valid email address and rejects all invalid then. It’s not remotely as easy as you’re making it out to be.

    Not saying this isn’t a shitty pattern, but you can’t make a claim like that.

    • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      What claim, that I probably could? I didn’t say anything at all about it being easy, it would be a pain in the ass and involve a lot of checking the RFC, but I could probably make one that accurately represents the spec if I wanted to take the time, and even then I’m not exactly confident I would hit every edge case.

      But why would I go to that hassle when there are well designed and vetted ones available?

      I believe you missed the point I was making

      • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        when there are well designed and vetted ones available?

        I’m not convinced of this, tbh. IIRC the RFC can’t be described in a regex at all.