Re: Email data type

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Dave Page wrote:
|>-----Original Message-----
|>From: Gaetano Mendola [mailto:mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com]
|>Sent: 17 May 2004 16:02
|>To: Bruno Wolff III
|>Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
|>Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Email data type
|>
|>About the domain literals, I think to validate it in the near
|>future, rejecting private subnet according to this list:
|>
|>10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
|>172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
|>192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
|>169.254.0.0 -169.254.255.255
|
|
| Why? What's wrong with private addresses?

Well I think that accept an email like:

gmendola(at)192(dot)168(dot)212(dot)2

is a risky.

It's true that any RFC forbid this kind of emails,
so I can accept it and leave to the final user the
opportunity to extract the domain an validate it.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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