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ratinox@peorth.gweep.net writes...
        ^      ^     ^
stromme@mi.uib.no (Stein A. Strømme) writes...
        ^  ^   ^
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes...
                ^  ^            ^
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.