Re: Suggestion for WinDis MailKill faciltity.

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From: Paul L. Allen
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 00:00

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In article <34c238b4.1663293@news.demon.co.uk>
    john@assen.demon.co.uk.nospam (John McCabe) writes:

> A lot of junk mail has the source address set to 99876@12345.com and
> other such crap. Would it be posible to implement a regular expression
> matching algorithm for use in the mail kill so that rather than
> *@compuserve.com, I could use e.g. [0-9]*@compuserve.com to represent
> any purely numerical user field?

I find I can reject this one (and not have any problems with real Compuserve
IDs using [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]@*.  There may be other
people using purely 8-digit user-ids, but I've yet to see one.

Regexps in mailkill processing are *good*.

--Paul

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