[leafnode-list] Re: Please help with a filtering rule

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 03 2008, georgewils@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> ^Subject:.*MI5.Persecution.*
>
> in /etc/leafnode/filters. Recently the guy startetd to mess up the MI5 string 
> was random spaces or special characters, like backticks, commas or hyphens.
>
> How would a filter look that matches all variations of the "MI5 Persecution" 
> string?

^Subject:.*M.?I.?5.P.?e.?r.?s.?e.?c.?u.?t.?i.?o.?n

".?" means zero or one arbitrary character.

See also the threads on news.software.readers ("Clever MI  crap").

Bye, Reiner.
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