cleanfeed and poison groups ...

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Sep 13 13:31:13 UTC 1999


The Hermit Hacker <scrappy at hub.org> writes:

> First off, going into this...I hate regex :)

> I'm trying to clean up my 'poison_groups' entry in cleanfeed.conf, and
> want to do something like:

> alt.binaries.pictures*preteen

> How would I represent the *?

I assume that poison_groups is a regex (I use my own spam filter).  If so,
use ".*" (sans the quotes, of course).  Technically, that should be:

        alt\.binaries\.pictures.*preteen

since . is a special character, but that's mostly being pedantic.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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