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Attempting to register at https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/createaccount.cgi returns inappropriate error message The e-mail address you entered ( dgermanw3@Real-World-Systems.com) didn't pass our syntax checking for a legal email address. A legal address must contain exactly one '@', and at least one '.' after the @, and may not contain any commas or spaces. It must also not contain any of these special characters: \ ( ) & < > , ; : " [ ], or any whitespace. since dgermanw3@Real-World-Systems.com contains exactly one (at), at least one dot after the (at) and does not contain any commas, spaces of unacceptable special characters. I suspect that the parsing incorrectly includes the hyphen ('-') as an illegal character. Thank you for your attention in this matter, Sincerely, Dennis G German aka DG12
The system shows there's already an account for dgermanw3@Real-World-Systems.com, created on 2011-01-16
I have managed to request a reset p/\550\/\\rd token, and am able to login. (not sure why I didn't seem to be able to do that yesterday) I'm good with that. However the problem remains (for others) and should be corrected. Sincerely, Dennis German DG12
For the record, I was not able to reproduce the general problem you describe. I tested creating some new dummy accounts with hyphens in them, and the system did not reject any of them. So either it was emitting the message due to some other problem character in what you entered, or it's some other kind of bug that caused it to emit the syntax-error message when in fact it should have emitted a message indicating that your account already existed.
Beans! I am sure I didn't imagine this error,but as you mentioned, I cannot reproduce the error either. Thank you for looking into this. WORKSFORME2