[Mailman-Developers] Regexp filtering
Adam McGreggor
adam-mailman at amyl.org.uk
Wed Mar 2 06:58:24 EST 2016
On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 09:26:13AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 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.
Looking at my sieve/procmail recipes, I rarely use globs (except in
blacklisting), it seems.
In the blacklisting case, it's against words in Subject: lines, as
well as Sender:/From: headers. I'd imagine (for those still using such
things), that's a fairly common approach.
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half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But
the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on
exploding for centuries."
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