How To Find Out If An Email Address Is Valid
2009 July 30
Keeping your email list clean is always a challenge and weeding out bad email addresses is a big part of that.
Dylan Boyd at The Email Wars highlights a tool that may help you verify email addresses before you put them on your list.
The tool can be found here: http://Verify-email.org/ .
However, as Dylan points out, this tool could easily be abused by spammers. Overall, he’s not a fan:
“I know that it is quite easy to guess anyone’s email address, but if they did not enter it into your opt in form should you be taking the initiative to fix it? I think you let it die. Human error is going to always be a factor that we have to deal with.”
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