[Mailman-Users] Banning members

[Martin Dennett]

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Martin Dennett wrote:
>
>   
>> Having added ^debora*@.*\..* to the "List of addresses which are banned 
>>     
> >from membership in this mailing list.", I've still got 3 "debora" 
>   
>> addresses to approve. Do you have any ideas?
>>     
>
>
> Your RE is missing a dot. It says 'debor' followed by zero or more 'a'
> followed by '@'.
>
> You want ^debora.*@.*\..*
>
> However just ^debora will do the same thing and is much simpler. It
> will match any address beginning with 'debora'. All you do with
> ^debora.*@.*\..* is require a '@' and a '.' somewhere after the '@'.
> The address probably has these things, but it isn't necessary to test
> for them.
Ah, so that's where I went wrong. I'll go with the ^debora option, and 
hope that I don't get a valid "Debora" wanting to join the list!

Rgds

MD