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Today, Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> wrote:
> Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl> writes:
>                            ^  ^       ^
>> How many false positives would you get if you match <word>.<word>.[a-z][a-z] 
>> or <word>.<word>.("com"|"net"|"org"|"mil")?

> Just for starters, you get false positives on _lots_ of mail
> addresses, including yours.
> But you missed .edu as a case that should have been included.

Then what about
'[^@]word.word.("com"|"net"|"org"|"mil"|"edu"|[a-z][a-z]) '?

kind regards,
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