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Re:The “Chad” bug by huuu on Thursday December 31, 2015 @02:56AM (#10816738)
I very much agree because in the end the only validation seems to be "does it contain a @ character somewhere in the middle".

For example: example@localhost is valid but is refused by most validators.

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Re:The “Chad” bug by maweki on Thursday December 31, 2015 @04:40AM (#10816970)
Localhost is obviously not a fully qualified domain name which would be expected in any internet setting.
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Re:The “Chad” bug by hcf on Thursday December 31, 2015 @06:25AM (#10817192)
Top level domains do resolve though, email@bs is completely legal to try to send email to.
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