Re: Auto correction of typos

2011-03-07 Thread Ramprasad Prasad
Now, the other part is the psychology on your end. What the hell is the point of maintaining an email database that you're afraid people have entered spam bot triggering emails into? You're either going to end up sending to it eventually or you're asking your users (and us) to give you

Re: Auto correction of typos

2011-03-07 Thread Brandon McCaig
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:49 AM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: they want. If this is for password rests, try getting their phone number and carrier name and using the carrier's email to sms gateway. You seem to be assuming that every user will have a mobile phone. :-X That seems like a

Re: Auto correction of typos

2011-03-07 Thread Brandon McCaig
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Ramprasad Prasad ramprasad...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Create a hash of aliases for frequently used domains and their typos For eg  gmaill.com = gmail.com  hotmal.com =  hotmail.com etc when I get the email id  with these typos , I will prompt the user for

Re: Auto correction of typos

2011-03-07 Thread shawn wilson
On Mar 7, 2011 11:37 AM, Brandon McCaig bamcc...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Ramprasad Prasad ramprasad...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Create a hash of aliases for frequently used domains and their typos For eg gmaill.com = gmail.com hotmal.com = hotmail.com etc

Re: Auto correction of typos

2011-03-07 Thread Brian F. Yulga
shawn wilson wrote: On Mar 7, 2011 11:37 AM, Brandon McCaig bamcc...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Ramprasad Prasad ramprasad...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Create a hash of aliases for frequently used domains and their typos For eg gmaill.com = gmail.com hotmal.com =

Re: Auto correction of typos

2011-03-06 Thread terry peng
Sat, 5 Mar 2011 12:23:49 +0530 письмо от Ramprasad Prasad ramprasad...@gmail.com: I have a web form where people sign up for updates by filling in their email address A lot of users end up not receiving the confirmation mailer because of typos in the email id Like yhaoo.com or

Re: Auto correction of typos

2011-03-06 Thread shawn wilson
On Mar 5, 2011 1:54 AM, Ramprasad Prasad ramprasad...@gmail.com wrote: I have a web form where people sign up for updates by filling in their email address A lot of users end up not receiving the confirmation mailer because of typos in the email id Like yhaoo.com or hotmaill.com I would

Re: Auto correction of typos

2011-03-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Ramprasad, On Saturday 05 Mar 2011 08:53:49 Ramprasad Prasad wrote: I have a web form where people sign up for updates by filling in their email address A lot of users end up not receiving the confirmation mailer because of typos in the email id Like yhaoo.com or hotmaill.com I would

Fwd: Re: Auto correction of typos

2011-03-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
Ramprasad sent me this message in private by accident. sending to the list. === Shlomi Fish -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Auto correction of typos Date: Saturday 05 Mar 2011, 13:25:48 From: Ramprasad Prasad ramprasad...@gmail.com To: Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il

Re: Fwd: Re: Auto correction of typos

2011-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 01:33:02PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Ramprasad sent me this message in private by accident. sending to the list. What I wanted to do was create a list of possible typos by people on the large mail domains like yahoo , hotmail etc Perhaps you want something like

Auto correction of typos

2011-03-04 Thread Ramprasad Prasad
I have a web form where people sign up for updates by filling in their email address A lot of users end up not receiving the confirmation mailer because of typos in the email id Like yhaoo.com or hotmaill.com I would like to prompt the user for a possible typo , like the google Did you mean this