Sector 930

Today at work, I was searching the web for a semi-reasonable regular expression that I could use to validate email addresses. I say “semi-reasonable” because an RFC 822 compliant regular expression would be quite long. What led to the search was a user with a single-quote (‘) in their address. Damn the Irish.

Anyways, the point of this post is that in looking for a solution, I came across the concept of address tags:

Some mail services allow a user to append a tag to his email address (e.g., joeuser+tag@example.com). The text of tag may be used to apply filtering and to create single-use addresses.

Hey folks,

Due to recent events at [redacted], I’ve had to take down my previous post about [redacted] because I make a reference to [redacted].

I will re-post it after [redacted] becomes a [redacted].

Thanks for reading.

Dear O’Reilly,

I want so many of your books. I don’t know what it is. I get a sudden rush when I see those cuddly animals. I even get a little turned on when I see those colored spines. I realize that I could never read a tiny fraction of your books in my lifetime. It doesn’t matter. I want to hold them in my arms as I fall asleep.

Recently, it has come to my attention that you are holding a contest where one lucky SOB can win his wishlist of precious O’Reilly titles. When I found out, I got so excited that I canceled dinner plans with my wife so that I could start putting together a list.