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Hello

As I understand  gnus-summary-limit-to-author allows regexp.
So I would like to limit the summary to 2 authors 
george and jim say
however when I try
(gnus-summary-limit-to-author "george \\| jim" nil)
or
(gnus-summary-limit-to-author "george | jim" nil)
or
(gnus-summary-limit-to-author "george \\\\| jim" nil)
etc 

All the time I get that the match is not found, but it seems that the
function interprets my input literary as a string not as a regexp.

What is my mistake.

Thanks 

Uwe Brauer