I scored 16/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
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17/21. Would have been 18 but the first example of spaces screwed me.
Well... like Bill Clinton said, it depends on what the definition of "is" is.
15/21
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.
Try explaining that last one to someone over the phone
I can't even view it...I get a TLS error
I get "not found". You got farther than me.
My phone blocked the site, citing "harmful content"
And after that, I now can't wait for the next pull request with a regular expression on email validation to come through.
#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?