Well... like Bill Clinton said, it depends on what the definition of "is" is.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
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I scored 12/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media. That was absolutely hilarious!
15/21
So much better than I thought it would be! Thank you for making the world a better & more informed place
#18 seems really bad, like no-one-has-ever-sanity-checked-this bad.
Im still trying to figure out what that means. How does @ resolve to an IP address?
I scored 15/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
brb omw to try and reserve 👉@👈 as e-mail address
And after that, I now can't wait for the next pull request with a regular expression on email validation to come through.
I kind of expected a lot of this; I remember the sendmail 4 book from back in the day when O'Reilly had that, DNS and BIND, and Perl as the entirety of its corpus.