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Title	Test Find Block common public domains & validate email
Expression	\w+([-+.]\w+)@(?!(hotmail\|gmail\|yahoo\|msn\|excite\|lycos\|aol\|live)\.com$)\w+([-.]\w+)\.\w+([-.]\w+)*
Description	Should you need to validate that an email address is correctly formmatted and need to block hotmail and gmail, this expression will do it for you. Thanks to Sergei Z from regexadvice.com
Matches	[email protected] \| [email protected]
Non-Matches	[email protected] \| joe@a
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Dan Brewerton
Source	http://regexadvice.com/forums/47737/ShowThread.aspx
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Title: WRONG WRONG WRONG
Name: Randal L. Schwartz
Date: 10/29/2008 11:08:44 AM
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Why are you ignoring the standards for email addresses?

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