Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > The point is that, having collected the email address, it's useless > unless one actually uses it *as an email address*, by sending a message > to it. Before then, “validating” it tells you nothing.
Right, the only legitimate use of an email address is sending legitimate email to it. An example might be collecting an address so that service staff can respond to a help request. If there is not an up-front, good reason to want to email the address, then collecting it is not legitimate. An example is web sites where users have to supply addresses to register. This is why mailinator.com was invented, but it's annoying even if you use mailinator. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
