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by greenyoda 4789 days ago
Given how infinitely variable names are, I'm not surprised that programmers have trouble getting them right. But I've also seen problems with validating something as simple as an e-mail address. For example, I wanted to get e-mail updates for a shipment on Fedex.com and discovered that I couldn't enter an address that contained more than one dot after the "@": name@example.com was OK, but name@subdomain.example.com wasn't accepted.