With regard to hating spam: I would recomend www.spamgourmet.com; I never have to give out my email address if I don't want to. Would also recomend posting links to http://manjac.ath.cx/nick/emails.jsp in your webpages or newsgroups, as it automatically generates faux email addresses and links to confuse spam robots. Asfand: As for testing it out, which is faster: I've not tried, as it seems to me that the case-when statement is more intuitively readable than the lambda array. Either way, the simple program that I would try it in is not built for benchmarking such things. I would encourage you to try it yourself. -- Nicholas Paul Johnson nickjohnsonSPAM^H^H^H^H / virginia.edu http://manjac.ath.cx/nick _ ( ) ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail X - against microsoft attachments / \ http://www.google.com/search?q=ascii+ribbon -- On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Paul van Tilburg wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:44:19AM +0900, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: > [...] > > Could you please send mail using a valid email user/domainname so that > I and fellow users don't receive all kinds of errors of choking MTAs/MDAs > because of the invalidity of using the underscore (_) in domainname > (im_not_giving_it_here / i_hate_spam.com). > At LEAST use a dash (-) instead of the underscore. > > Thanks, > > Paul > >