On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 11:13:18PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Adam McGreggor writes:
>
> > Or could we meet user expectations (real users, not geeks), [and
> > allow glob syntax].
>
> Definitely worth discussing, but my initial reaction is negative for
> the reasons discussed below.
>
> > Simples:
> > *@mail.ru
> > *@*mail.ru
> > [email protected]
>
> Are those anchored? At the beginning of string? At end?
'throughout'.
> Is there really a use case for "?"? I don't see this as an obvious feature.
I'd imagine there could be some use for people wanting say, to handle
five-character localparts of an address, although it's an in-elegant
approach, it's something a user can understand, without needing to
understand regexp ("all our new subscriptions are five characters
before the @ sign. I want to block them").
> Globs are also too blunt for the use case, especially since bad actors
> do deliberately use fine distinctions between well-known domains and
> their own sinkholes of depravity when phishing.
True. (I was picking on mail.ru, as it's one of the common ones that I
find quite irresponsible).
> Users are likely to
> be lazy, using "*@*mail.ru" to catch both "[email protected]" and
> "[email protected]", trashing "[email protected]"'s posts
> in the process.
Are they going to use *@* necessarily, or just *@? (unless they want
subdomains when "*@*.mail.ru" might be acceptable).
>
> > Off the top of my head, the syntax would define if it's an absolute
> > address ([email protected]) vs a regexp.
>
> "[email protected]" is unambiguous, but "[email protected]" is
> not. That's a big trap for users, who surely know exactly what they
> mean by that (and it's not [email protected]!)
Agree.
--
"applying logic to English slang is never a sound idea"
-- Stephen Fry
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