Hello Ed.Q.Bridges:
On Thu, 25 May 2000 10:45:31 -0400 you wrote:
>
> the only reliable way of checking whether or not an
> email address is valid is by sending an email to it
> and getting a response that isn't a bounce.
>
After i do some experiments, i have to admit you are right.
That's really not a simple task:-(.
> likewise there's no "formal" way of validating an
> email address. to wit, these are all valid email
> addresses that could exist on a server:
> j
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> to get a sense of the complexity of this task, take
> a look at the regular expression for matching an email
> address in Appendix B of "Mastering Regular Expressions"
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/index.html
>
> regards
> --e--
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