Steve Atkins wrote: > If you want to validate email addresses you _must_ check the TLD as > part of the sanity checking, as many of the typos that are > theoretically detectable are detectable by that check. Your requirements may be different than mine, but I often make up "fake" TLDs for testing or even internal subnets in production systems, so having a system that hardcoded the list of "official" TLDs would be significantly less useful to me. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster