[Mailman-Developers] Regexp filtering

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 01, 2016, at 11:13 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>In theory we could use globs as well (some of the modern VCSes permit
>glob or regexp syntax), but it's not a serious data loss issue for a
>VCS if a mistake is made.  You just run the add command again with -f,
>or uncommit, or whatever.  Granted, a perverse enough user could fail
>to add a file, commit, then overwrite the file, but this is much less
>serious than the possibility that a particular user would end up as
>collateral damage to a spam filter.

globs make sense for file system operations, and we've been using them for
decades in shells.  I think globs make less sense for header value pattern
matching.

Cheers,
-Barry