Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam

Re:Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username e... by wiml on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @12:59AM (#32479359)

It makes the preceding * less "greedy". I don't think it has any effect on the set of strings matched by this regexp, though, which is a simple string suffix check.

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Re:Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username e... by jakopo87 on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @03:21AM (#32480112)

I agree, but the dot should be escaped because it matches any character, so "@domain\.com$" should just works for.

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Re:Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username e... by jasonm23 on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @06:14AM (#32481058)

Or use [.] so it's super clear on the a-human-is-reading-it parse.

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Re:Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username e... by account42 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @09:42AM (#32496247)

I don't think that's clearer because for [.] I need to remember that . does not need to be escaped in character classes whereas \. is quite clearly an escaped literal character without any advanced regexp knowledge.

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