On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 03:06:33PM -0600, Michael A. Stone wrote:
> good point.. OTOH, on a unix system it's easy enough to drop a subshell and
> do the lookup explicitly:
> [...]
> which is just one of the many reasons why i like working in unix & perl. ;-)
You know, if I keep this up, I'll get you to write an entire email
address parser in Perl. ;-)
But (all together now) That Would Be Wrong.
Incidentally, I got asked an offshoot of this same question today:
how do I know that the name associated with the user is actually
their name? After all, I could create [EMAIL PROTECTED] and tell you
that it's "Roger Rabbit", and since you can't reach in here via
finger or SMTP to confirm or deny that, how could you know?
Even using public key encryption only tells you that the message
came from the person you think it came from; it doesn't guarantee
you that they've used their true name.
My answer: "Do not make critical decisions based on the content
of email messages. Yet."
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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