Re: printing values of "arrays of pointers"

On Mon, 05 May 2008 02:25:53 -0400, CBFalconer <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

arnuld wrote:

how about [ <sunrise@xxxxxxxxxx> ]? It doe not use any real domain
name and is different enough from common words like spam, invalid,
nospam etc.

No. People can create new domains and addresses at any time. The
.invalid domain is guaranteed not to exist, and thus to never cause
problems.

With profuse apologies to Kilmer, only ICANN can make a TLD.
And except for 2char ccTLDs which defer to ISO 3162 MA,
their process is quite public and slow enough you can get plenty of
warning of a possible conflict. But .invalid is indeed guaranteed.

- formerly david.thompson1 || achar(64) || worldnet.att.net
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