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by rpgraham84 300 days ago
would be nice if what valid means was clearly defined before the test. what the rfc's regex allows is probably the least useful way to think about email validation.
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I do have a short sentence on the homepage saying I used https://github.com/jackbearheart/email-addresses as the validator for the examples. It could be more clearly defined, though.
I see some of the sibling comments seem to imply that "valid" means that it's deliverable at that moment in time, which would make producing a quiz like this some nonsense because then they'd have to actually register xn--tp8h as a domain, and create an MX record for it