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Re: RegExp in Newshopper

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From: Hugh Thomson
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:00
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In article <ACBAF939966854B32@158.152.17.67>,
peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote:

>And thanks, Steve, as I had found that Newsgroups: *,*,* selects
>everything, regardless, and I'd stopped there.
>
>Laurent; why does it do that please?
>
>I presume that [A-Za-z0-9\.]*,[A-Za-z0-9\.]*,[A-Za-z0-9\.]* selects a word
>with any of that range as first character, but then why not *,*,*?
>
>Peter

Can anybody (I'm sure you can ;-)) clarify which order filters should be
set to,
i.e. Subject, Authoer, etc. and whether - download - should precede -
ignore.
I found that RegExp " *" download seems to have to be last in demon.local
to work properly, otherwise unwanted dross appears.
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From: hugh@thrl.demon.co.uk (Hugh Thomson)
Subject: Re: RegExp in Newshopper
Date: 1995/10/31
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