On Jan 4, 2006, at 7:25 AM, Jeffrey Moss wrote:
> It doesn't do as careful of an inspection as yours, although I've seen
> some validations that are far more detailed. It'd be nice to have some
> people contribute their suggestions for the ultimate email address
> validation regular expression.

It already exists.  Go buy the first edition of Mastering Regular 
Expressions.  There 11 page regex that matches emails.

Brian