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Am I missing something? I'm pretty sure the last one is Windows XP...
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I think that's the joke :stuck_out_tongue:
…unless @mark_bowytz got the caption wrong, that is…
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Some people, when confronted with a bug, think “I know, I'll report it to bugreport.apple.com.” Now they have two bugs.
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Yeah, I think it needs just a little more sarcasm to make the joke clear. Something like
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I have seen and used some strange windows version called
never really understood what it was. It did not have ALL the standard API but enough of it to be a real pain in the ***.Admin
For the email one there are a bunch of sites that don't accept hyphens either. Or any special characters in the domain half for that matter... I actually have an alias version of my email domain for just those occasions. It is the same minus the hyphen.
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“Point Of Sale” is the marketdroid-approved expansion of “POS”. Everyone else has their own ideas.
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"Wow! I can type the exact same speed I do now if I just get some training!" wrote Abner Q.
Well what do you expect for free.
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Dammit.
"but at least I know they're not using Vista" FTFY.
"I just wanted to report a bug on bugreport.apple.com," FTFY!
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XD
Descriptive is body; try to be a little more invalid
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Maybe the question was "what language does this nonsense resemble?"
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@powerlord Maybe you're expected to inspect the source and fix it, thus qualifying you to join the panel.
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I was amused to note that part of it looks a bit like SQL....as in SQL injection opportunity. Lots of sites seem to have SQL injection opportunities, but most of them don't advertise it by posting, "To join, bring down our website."
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lojban?
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HP laptop installation/registration software as of a few years ago wouldn't accept + in an email address.
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Regarding the u-verse one, long ago, I was a moderator on an MSN forum, and got free premium service forever (this is when they were a portal, and actually had such a thing.)
They apparently didn't have any way to signal "no expiration date" so my actual expiration date in the system was in the year 2830.
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U-Verse isn't the only one. Currently I have a lifetime plan with VPN Unlimited and they signal that by giving you 100 years on your account. Their program does pick it up as a lifetime plan but their website shows the 100 year bit.
Some other sites have done that and usually it is set to some crazy high expire date.
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Like the year 2830 (or so; I don't remember the exact year)? I got that account in 1996.
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The + sign bit is really common since it is rarely expected. Currently the only legit email addresses are ones where they part after is used for filtering purposes. I don't think I've seen one that wasn't used that way. However if you do accept email addresses like that you can't assume that to be the case at all since there is still that 0.0000001% chance that someone legit wanted a + sign in their email address for some odd reason.
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Nonetheless, it's actually legal. Presumably, someone could write a mail server that used it as an actual character, not a filter indicator, which is, of course, how I was actually using it.
Once again, you should do next to no "validation" of email addresses--as has been amply argued about here over the years--because you're almost guaranteed to get it wrong.
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Seriously? Where do these developers come from? Just do something like:
LifetimeorNo_Expireflag to the DB. Was that so hard?Expiration_Datefield nullable. Anything with aNULLin that field doesn't expire.Wow, that took a ton of work to figure out. I better take a nap now.
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In my case, Microsoft.
Go figure.
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Something like:
Anything besides that is bound to be wrong in some case.
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Nope! (Although I don't know if anyone still uses bang-paths. And I vaguely remember that BITNET didn't use @ symbols but I might be wrong there.)
The only universally-meaningful validation of an email address is to actually attempt to send an email to it.
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Huh. I'll have to check the official spec again. That's RFC2822, right?
Or is it 2821?
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822, like God intended.
Get off my lawn!
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AHA! You are WRONG good sir!
From the Abstract of RFC 2822 (emphasis mine):
In other words, RFC 822 is no longer the standard. :musical_note: Suck it. :fa_music:
Now, regarding the current address standards, section 3.4 indicates that an addr-spec should be used for addressing. Section 3.4.1 defines an addr-spec as (emphasis mine):
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Did you miss my
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Practically, yes. Technically, no.
If they do, take them out and :gun:-bang them.There is technically the possibility of a local user for whom the username alone is a valid email address.
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Someone else who needs to read RFC 2822. :P
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Generally not a concern when designing web software these days.
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True. I started writing "If you're designing a form for local users, you should blah blah," but decided Belgium it, and deleted it.
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You've also gotta remember unusual stuff like parens, which probably most don't think of.
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What if you work for the company developing the software?
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Good luck finding a providor anymore. Support is fading for X.400.
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It's still alive? The only part of that entire stack that seems to have really survived robustly is X.509 and the bits that support it.