Man Arrested Over 'Spam Rage'

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, JoeHill wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:52:41 -0500 (EST)
> Max Blanco <blanco-S8qYAnHmZTt34ZA5RureAJ4VBq8PJc8F at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > He must not have been familiar with procmail.
> > A script like this *may* (or may not) have saved him from going postal:
> >
> > # cat > .procmailrc
> > :0:                #delete spam
> > *
> > ^Subject:.*(prescription|meds|medication|xanax|valium|viagra|pharmac|enlarge|
> > penis)/dev/null
> > ^d
>
> what's with the ^d, I've never seen that before?

     Control-D, i.e. end of file. The instruction "cat > .procmailrc"
     sends the keyboard input to the file .procmailrc (should be
     $HOME/.procmailrc) until Ctl-D is pressed.

> > <http://www.linuxworld.com/story/32894.htm>
> >
> > Is the regexp match case-insensitive?
>
> No, you'd need [Pp][Rr][Ee]...etc.

     Not necessary; they ARE case-insensitive.

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