[eluser]Grahack[/eluser]
If you want an email address, you just want to be shure you get a valid email address, don't you?
Maybe I don't understand your question fully...
[eluser]ejangi[/eluser]
Yeah, I agree with Grahack... I don't think validating an email address is going to do anything about spammers, but as a programmer you want to be sure you have data integrity and you should never trust that the data coming into your system is correctly formatted.
[eluser]Developer13[/eluser]
Amen. Garbage in, garbage out. Basic data collection methods - never trust a user to enter correctly formatted data (just as the guy above me said)!