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Re:"Email is Easy" email address quiz by SoftTalker on Sunday August 17, 2025 @03:36PM (#44934262)
Some of the other examples which are "technically valid but obsolete" I would consider safe to call invalid for practical purposes.
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Re:"Email is Easy" email address quiz by samwho on Sunday August 17, 2025 @03:48PM (#44934360)
Yeah, I almost put a disclaimer at the end saying that while these examples are valid according to the spec, that has no bearing on whether they’re usable in practice. Email is the Wild West.
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