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/

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