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diff --git a/includes/User.php b/includes/User.php
index a346456..97dd155 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/User.php
+++ b/includes/User.php
@@ -218,7 +218,11 @@ class User {
        }
 
        /**
-        * does the string match roughly an email address ?
+        * Does the string match roughly an email address ?
+        *
+        * There used to be a regular expression here, it got removed because it
+        * rejected valid addresses. Actually just check if there is '@' somewhere
+        * in the given address.
         *
         * @todo Check for RFC 2822 compilance
         * @bug 959
@@ -228,8 +232,6 @@ class User {
         * @return bool
         */
        function isValidEmailAddr ( $addr ) {
-               # There used to be a regular expression here, it got removed because it
-               # rejected valid addresses.
                return ( trim( $addr ) != '' ) &&
                        (false !== strpos( $addr, '@' ) );
        }