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I created my catch-all on a subdomain. While it gives a problem with certain websites (don't consider it a valid e-mail address), I barely receive spam on it.

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> While it gives a problem with certain websites (don't consider it a valid e-mail address)

Are you saying that there are sites out there which don't accept mailbox@subdomain.example.com a valid email address? If so, that's beyond broken...

My school's student addresses ended in @u.northwestern.edu. You can imagine this was annoying sometimes when email addresses ending in .edu were used to verify student status.

>My school's student addresses ended in @u.northwestern.edu. You can imagine this was annoying sometimes when email addresses ending in .edu were used to verify student status.

Sorry, could you repeat that? yourname@u.northwestern.edu certainly matches \.edu$.

Unless you're worried about the false-positive for a non-student with a different subdomain?

It doesnt match \w\.edu$

And you can imagine how maddening it is when 90% of students worldwide don't have a .edu, but some do.

Only one university in Germany has a .edu, and their students obviously manage to get far more benefits than those of us with an @informatik.uni-kiel.de email.

99% of times we need to send proof that we are students, what is interesting is that many companies accept that even if it's not in English. Probably on good faith.

In Brazil, universities can use .edu.br, but we have few universities providing email addresses to students and also, the majority of grad schools in Brazil are not universities but a small college called 'University Center'

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