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by floatingatoll 2687 days ago
Not as readable, but each inter-character spot is a bit, and if you have 11 bits, you can represent 2^11 addresses.

EDIT: Assumes Zero or One periods per bit-gap; if you can chain them, the sky’s the limit.

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I just tested it with a bunch of periods. I got rejected with just two periods adjacent, and with quite a few more periods adjacent. So only bits. Looks like it can be used for filtering too.
Dots cannot appear consecutively in the local-part unless quoted.