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• Anonymous commented  ·  May 16, 2013 4:28 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  As of May 2013, the sign-up process looks to have been completely redesigned.

  Yet this issue still remains: a valid email address is rejected with “That email looks invalid”.

  Please, Meetup, follow RFC 3696 and stop rejecting email addresses based on the local-part, which is not for you to validate.

• Michael Weibel commented  ·  April 25, 2013 10:57 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Still not fixed.. Please do it, we're not in the 80s anymore..

• Kelly Clowers commented  ·  March 15, 2013 10:19 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please allow this! I rely on this for filtering

• Anonymous commented  ·  November 30, 2012 7:45 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  If you must validate email addresses, then validate them correctly according to standard.
  See RFC-2822

• Anonymous commented  ·  September 23, 2012 12:19 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Better, don't validate the local part of an email addres *at all*. It's none of Meetup's business to decide what is and is not valid, before the final ‘@’ in an email address. That's up to the email system handling that email address.

  RFC 3696 gives correct guidance on how to validate email addresses (basically: anything before the final ‘@’ is none of your business, don't reject it).

• Anonymous commented  ·  September 10, 2012 10:04 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Email addresses with a "+" (plus) inside is correct regarding to RFC.

• Wade commented  ·  February 12, 2012 9:23 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Yes, please follow the RFC and accept valid email addresses.

• Anonymous commented  ·  January 20, 2012 4:39 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  RFC 3696 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3696) gives guidance to web developers who wish to validate user-entered data like email addresses, domain names and URLs.

• Dan Wood commented  ·  December 23, 2011 10:18 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Agreed. It's a way that I keep track of who has my email address, by making each one unique per service.

• Bernd Jendrissek commented  ·  November 2, 2011 4:56 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  In case anyone says "but spammers use +", that's nonsense. That's what the confirmation email is for. See also http://www.meetup.com/boards/thread/9809558/0#37884951

  Yes, your site and developers are just plain wrong. Fix it!

• Jessica commented  ·  June 11, 2011 8:34 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please!

• Richard commented  ·  August 25, 2010 1:07 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Apparently, uservoice.com allows them fine. :)