Re: Email Verfication Regular Expression

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:21:45PM -0700,
 Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com> wrote
 a message of 26 lines which said:

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/^[^@]*@(?:[^@]*\.)?[a-z0-9-_]+\.(?:a[defgilmnoqrstuwz]|b[abdefghijmnorstvwyz]|c[acdfghiklmnoruvxyz]|d[ejkmoz]|e[ceghrst]|f[ijkmorx]|g[abdefhilmnpqrstuwy]|h[kmnrtu]|i[delnoqrst]|j[mop]|k[eghimnprwyz]|l[abcikrstuvy]|m[acdghklmnopqrstuvwxyz]|n[acefgilopruz]|om|p[aefghklmnrtwy]|qa|r[eouw]|s[abcdeghijklmnortvyz]|t[cdfghjkmnoprtvwz]|u[agkmsyz]|v[aceginu]|w[fs]|y[etu]|z[amw]|edu|com|net|org|gov|mil|info|biz|coop|museum|aero|name|pro)$/

Very bad idea to hardcode the list of TLD. You are already late
(".jobs" and ".travel" are in the ICANN root).