[thelist] JS regex help

Courtenay court3nay at gmail.com
Fri Oct 8 20:52:33 CDT 2004


I think you've proably nailed it there--- I personally always prefer
the 'more elegant and simple solutions to the page-long,
need-a-phd-to-understand, solutions.

The proof is in the pudding, as they say!  I guess a combination of
server-side and client-side is the best case.


On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:19:59 -0700 (PDT), Edwin Horneij
<ed_horneij at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Where I work we are somewhat lax about what we will allow the user to
> enter in the "email" form field, and then we send an email containing
> the URL of a validation page to the address furnished by the visitor.
> The user's account is only activated once the user goes to that page
> and clicks on the submit button of a validation form. Every so often we
> purge old accounts that were never activated.


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