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From: Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Email Vali8dation Problem
Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs
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"Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> writes:

> Dr JR said

>> A valid address will contain at least one character, followed by @,
>> followed by at least one character, followed by a dot, and ending with
>> at least two alphabetic characters (though the RFC itself may be more
>> (or less) lenient) - and it will not end in ".invalid" or, IIRC & in
>> practice, "example.com".
>
> This is discouraging :(

It's also completely made up (but to be fair, the relevant RFCs were
probably not written by Britons and as such irrelevant in Stockton's
parallel universe).