[thelist] RegExp in ASP for validating e-mail and URLs?

[Peter Bornhall]

Hey again, everyone...

It makes me sad to see that some of you seem to think that I want to do 
something "nasty" with this, but I guess it's just a sign of the times...:-|

Either way, I can't do much more than say that this will NOT be used in 
any malicious way whatsoever.  I'm only looking for an efficient way of 
automatically making URLs into links in a little CMS-like thingy on a 
web site I maintain.  Reason?  I feel like I don't want to bother my 
visitors with learning how to enter an URL that other visitors can click 
on.  I'm pretty sure that I *could* do this brute-force, but I'm not 
looking to bog down the server more than necessary, which is why I 
thought of regular expressions.

As I mentioned to Alex, who responded and was willing to help, this is 
not for any commercial purposes, as it is intended to be used on the 
site at www.bikesight.com (all in Swedish though), which is a non-profit 
community for swedish bikers to share tips and mingle online.

If you still think I'm a spammer of some sort, it's up to you.  I can't 
do much to prove that I'm not (I'm not, btw :), so this is how I present 
my case to the court in anticipation of the verdict.

Regards,
Peter Bornhall
Webmaster of www.bikesight.com


Seamus wrote:
> It looks more likely that he's trying to write a script to parse urls
> automatically
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> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:36:17 +0000, Alex Beston <alex at deltatraffic.co.uk> wrote:
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>>Peter Bornhall wrote:
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>>>Hi Alex!
>>>
>>>I'd be happy for any help you can offer!
>>
>>great!
>>
>>
>>>Is your extensive work anything you feel you want to share?  It's not
>>>for any sort of commercial use though, so I'm sorry to say that there
>>>is no money involved...
>>>
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>>Not really - if you want my help it would have to be on a personal basis
>>rather than on the world basis which is what evolt is. not many people
>>will want to help you because it looks like your writing yourself a
>>email collector. what do you need it for? if its for some nefarious
>>activity you can get lost but it seems you want it for something else.
>>what? when you say not "commercial" will it be use by commercial
>>organisations?
>>
>>Mail me today with your requirements and what you intend the code to do
>>and I'll be happy to offer my time as a favour.
>>
>>rgds
>>
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>>
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>>deltaTraffic
>>Tel: 01273 691234
>>www.deltatraffic.co.uk
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