Re: Select all invalid e-mail addresses - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Select all invalid e-mail addresses
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Msg-id 20051020155538.GE9291@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to Re: Select all invalid e-mail addresses  (Brian Mathis <brian.mathis@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:22:25AM -0400, Brian Mathis wrote:

> That's why I think the better term for this is "well formed". "Validity" can
> only be determined by sending to it, but you can tell if an address at least

In fact, it can only be determined by sending to it over and over
again, because whether a mail address works may change over time (and
may have nothing to do with the poor schmuck whose email
administrators don't know how to spell "MX record").

A

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