to check street addresses, there isn't a whole lot you can do other than verifying that it begins with a numeric character followed by whatever, followed by a space, followed by some alpha-numeric characters. Other than that, you could use a web service or other source to try and validate that it's a valid street... but streets (in the States, anyway) are added so frequently that you'd be putting a lot of faith in an imperfect validation source. My earlier suggestion would again hold true here... if it's got 5 or 6 non-vowel characters in a row, it's probably bullshit.
~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 21:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Valid address checker When I say addresses, I don't mean e-mail. I mean street addresses. E.g 1 sevenacres grove Valid address Sdklfjdkslfjdkl Invalid address > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Horwith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 October 2003 21:08 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Valid address checker > > > 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] -- ** 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]
