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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: What string to filter FreeBSD lists?
To: dkelly@hiwaay.net
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 06:19:41 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199707230057.TAA05346@nexgen.hiwaay.net> from "dkelly@hiwaay.net" at Jul 22, 97 07:57:49 pm
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dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote:
> 
> > Could anyone share with me what strings they use to filter their
> > FreeBSD lists.
> > I have tried a few things, but every now an then messages go
> > unfiltered..
> 
> As the other posting noted, they tend to flip-flop on the sender addresses. 
> I filter with slocal and have decided to leave identical filters in place 
> for owner-chat and owner-freebsd-chat, and similar for all the other 

	if these tools (slocal, procmail, etc..) can handle regular
	expressions, you can cover all cases by sorting on
	owner-*<listname>.
	if you would rather restrict this more tightly, use
	owner-chat|owner-freebsd-chat

	as to why they flip, i dont know ;(
	i need to look into this more carefully, as time allows.

	in the meantime, please, dont be overly restrictive in your filters.
	the only two possilbilities are owner-freebsd-<listname> and
	owner-<listname>

	sorry for any inconvience this may have caused.
jmb