Skip to content

Comment on Stop validating email addresses with your complex regexparent

Comments

Just for fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_path#UUCP_for_mail_routin...

But yeah, that's effectively dead and you probably don't want to try sending mail that way.

He'd have to have bang routes set up on his mail server for that. =) So it's not just effectively dead, it's dead-dead.

I am chose my phrasing for the very reason that it's merely incredibly unlikely and not at all impossible. I've even sent mail with bang-paths post-2000 just to confound the recipient, though it is a rare network that would accommodate that today.

Edit: punctuation.

Where can I still use bang-paths?!

Nowhere that I know of, at least not for certain. The company with the mail server I used has been subsumed by another company, however some other companies from that time may still be running compatible mailers.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.