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tbrownaw on Nov 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Valid Email Addresses

A "valid" email address does not have to mean a "well-formed" email address.

dfc on Nov 30, 2012 [–]

Without getting too existential what else could "valid" possibly mean.

randallsquared on Nov 30, 2012 | [–]

One that someone is using to accept mail.

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