not to say that this is the best solution, but off of the top of my head one thing you can do is check to make sure that an address username doesn't have more than 4 or 5 consanants in a row... that's an extremely rare case with legitimate addresses. You can also finger addresses, but you then have to accept that fingering isn't going to work with web-based e-mail clients like hotmail, yahoo, etc. Not last time I checked, anyway. This obviously isn't going to catch 100% of the garbage - but the odds are good that whatever it does catch, is garbage.
~Simon Simon Horwith CTO, Etrilogy Ltd. Member of Team Macromedia Macromedia Certified Instructor Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Certified Flash MX Developer CFDJList - List Administrator http://www.how2cf.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Snake Hollywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 October 2003 19:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ cf-dev ] Valid address checker Guys, I am really getting miffed with all the bogus signups on cfdeveloper now, it wastes my time having to sift through all the bogus ones to validate the legit ones. Does anyone have any kind of script that can intelligently check form fields and identify addresses or names which are total garbage so I can reject them. I have registered on sites myself and just typed in junk and it has been caught as junk, so I know it's not an impossible request. Russ Michaels Macromedia/Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer CFDeveloper The free resource and community for ColdFusion developer. http://www.cfdeveloper.co.uk Join the CFDeveloper discussion lists. To subscribe send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
