On topic message about Off topic messages

[Charles Jones]

Lisa Kachold wrote:
> No,
What question is "No" a response to?
> you simply the filtering (beit procmail or simple ciscolearning 
> SharePoint Microsoft Exchange webmail, or Yahoo, MSN, gmail) as ":OT " 
> [notice space and preceeding colon].
Sure, my response was simply pointing out possible subjects that his 
regular expression of ".*OT.*" would filter out. Microsoft Outlook Web 
Access has no filtering options, not that it matters as I do all of my 
filtering with Mozilla Thunderbird :-)

-Charles

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:55:04 -0700
> > From: charles.jones at ciscolearning.org
> > To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: On topic message about Off topic messages
> >
> > Kurt Granroth wrote:
> > > * ^Subject:.*OT.*
> > > The Subject rule will
> > > match any instance of OT... even if it's part of another word. I
> > > was tempted to put a regex in front and back to limit the matches but
> > > didn't, since a) it wouldn't handle things like WayOT and the like
> > > and b) I can't think of many cases where a subject would have OT
> > > in an existing word, anyway.
> > >
> > I could think of a few:
> > OTHER LINUX DISTROS?
> > GOT ROOT?
> > OPTICAL DRIVES?
> > HOTEL WIFI HACKING
> > POTENTIAL EXPLOITS
> > OTTERS ATE MY ETHERNET!
> >
> > ;-)

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