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Subject: Re: Dear Saint Andrew...
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Date: 20 Jul 90 15:12:13 GMT
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Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 20-Jul-90 Re: Dear Saint Andrew...
Craig_Everhart@transarc. (4577+0)

> Wow, another address-validation request: don't even bother parsing the
> addresses, but just leave 'em alone.  Or parse them in some broader
> syntax, and try to handle the ones you recognize.

Yeah, kind of a neat idea for an option.  Whereas most modifications to
mswp.c are a real nightmare, it should really be quite easy to add an
option that causes the MS_Validate... call to simply return an "all is
well code" all the time.