From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54539 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: era@iki.fi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What Headers Are Checked With split-fancy 'any' Date: 30 Oct 2003 09:11:46 +0200 Organization: People Who Are Not Old Enough For Unix (Honorary Member Emeritus) Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <873cdbdx4e.fsf@era.iki.fi> References: <767k2oj7p0.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> <768yn33kld.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067497969 32456 80.91.224.253 (30 Oct 2003 07:12:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:12:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3080@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Oct 30 08:12:47 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AF6z9-0007rK-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:12:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AF6yO-0006MR-00; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:12:00 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AF6yF-0006ML-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:11:51 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B620C3A004C for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:11:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AF6yC-0007YX-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:11:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AF6yA-0007YP-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:11:46 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AF6yA-0008Q2-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:11:46 +0100 Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54539 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54539 On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:41:10 +0100, Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> posted to gmane.emacs.gnus.general: > On Wed, Oct 29 2003, Jake Colman wrote: >> The construct "\\(lists\\.\\)?" says zero or more "lists." > Yup. Actually it's "zero or one". The operator * is "zero or more". Jake, you'd do well to read the Info node "(emacs)Regexps" for a summary of what the various regular expression operators do. C-h i "(emacs)Regexps" RET For more information, Friedl's book is The Book. I hear there's a new edition out, BTW. (Okay, it's not so "new" anymore -- Summer 2002.) /* era */ -- The email address era the contact information Just for kicks, imagine at iki dot fi is heavily link on my home page at what it's like to get spam filtered. If you 500 pieces of spam for want to reach me, see instead. each wanted message.