Man Arrested Over 'Spam Rage'

[JoeHill]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:16:43 -0500 (EST)
"Chris F.A. Johnson" <c.f.a.johnson-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 
>    Don't you mean:
> 
> ^Subject:.*(p.*r.*e.*s.*c.*r.*i.*p.*t.*i.*o.*n|m.*e.*d.*s|m.*e.*d.*i.*c.*a.*t
> .*i.*o.*n|...etc.
> 
>    (procmail uses regular expressions, not file globbing patterns)
> 
>    But it will catch the subject "Some sed hints".

ah, yes, now that I went back and read the how-to, a * means a repeated
character, not a wildcard...

brilliant "anagraming", BTW :-)

I could separate them out, though, into distinct lines instead of putting them
all in brackets, thereby preventing the chance of missing those "sed hints"?

Thanks!

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