> Is there a published specification on e-mail addresses?  The 
> reason I ask is
> that we are using the 'email' validator, and it's accepting 
> as valid e-mail
> addresses such as 'u-+-+%^_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.  I didn't 
> think Validator
> would accept these, but apparently is it.  If there's not an 
> established
> spec for e-mail addresses, then I would assume that anything goes....
> 
> Comments?

There was discussion about this earlier on the mailing
list. Search the archives for "email validation RFC"
or some such.

There's an RFC that covers what're valid email addresses.

Your example looks perfectly valid to me...

                                -TPP

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