| From: | "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| To: | <steve(at)blighty(dot)com> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Email data type |
| Date: | 2004-05-17 17:55:16 |
| Message-ID: | 50128.80.177.99.193.1084816516.squirrel@ssl.vale-housing.co.uk |
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It's rumoured that Steve Atkins once said:
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 05:01:05PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>
>> > a(at)foo(dot)bar is syntactically valid. a(at)foo(dot)invalid is
>> > syntactically valid, but should be immediately rejected.
>>
>> I disagree - just because the database server cannot verify the the
>> existence of a domain does not mean that it isn't valid. I think only
>> addresses that are syntactically incorrect should be rejected.
>
> I think you're missing the point. Go and take a glance at RFC 2606 -
> it's a BCP which defines the .test, .invalid, .example and .localhost
> TLDs.
Ahh, yes - clearly I was missing the point :-)
Regards, Dave.
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