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["Roman Filippov" <klubbheads@home.com>]

Hello all!

I'm not sure and sorry if this was discussed before or if it is an offtopic,
but I don't know other place to write to...

I think one of the major problems of making new TLDs is rewriting the source
code of many programs. This is caused by the comparison of the e-mail with
program's pattern. For example in Perl, usually (not always, it's up to
programmer, but the most common) pattern is: first goes any character except
of the "new line" character, then it follows by the "@" sign, after that
goes group of characters which consist of a-z 0-9 and "-" sign, then goes
"." and then it follows by (here is the problem) *2* or *3* letters TLD. So
if a TLD will be 4 letters the program will say "Wrong e-mail address.". And
this pattern is an advice of Perl creators, and I've seen this pattern in
98% of the scripts. And that is ok if I'll need to rewrite the Perl script,
because it's my own script, and I hopefully do not distribute it. But what
about some software programs which use the same pattern? Customer already
bought it, then customer has to download some patch... which creates a
problem.

Thank you and I'm sorry again if it is wrong place to write to.

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Roman Filippov | klubbheads@home.com | 107997


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