From: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Select all invalid e-mail addresses |
Date: | 2005-10-20 20:47:42 |
Message-ID: | 20051020204742.GA9929@phlogiston.dyndns.org |
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:34:39PM -0700, Steve Atkins wrote:
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> While there are valid deliverable email addresses in .arpa, you really
> don't want to be accepting them from end users...
You know, as someone who has been bitten hundreds of times by the
decision of some application designer who thought s/he knew better
than I what my email address could possibly be, I respectfully submit
that you're mistaken. We call it a bug when other databases accept
dates like '0000-00-00'; but we'd just as surely call it a bug if
PostgreSQL refused to accept valid leap year dates or leap seconds.
It's one thing to say you should not accept known-bad data; it's
quite another to refuse data that is improbable but nevertheless
perfectly good.
A
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Andrew Sullivan | ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca
I remember when computers were frustrating because they *did* exactly what
you told them to. That actually seems sort of quaint now.
--J.D. Baldwin
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