Re: [Q] stripping banners at the start of messages

[Paul Stevenson <p.stevenson@surrey.ac.uk>]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> I have tried getting rid of banners like this:
> 
> -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~>
> Tired of searching for an apartment?  Try Viva!  It's fast and free.
> Now serving Dallas, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas.
> Rent by September 30th - get $100 cash!
> http://click.egroups.com/1/9154/16/_/461700/_/968288860/
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------_->
> 
> with the following setting in the group parameters of the mail group
> handling the list:
> 
>  (banner . "\n-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~>\n.*\n.*\n.*\n.*\n---------------------------------------------------------------------_->\n")


I'm having exactly the same problem (eGroups banner).  I can get rid
of one line okay (by customizing the group and putting 
-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~>\n
as the banner, but multiple-lines don't work.  Oddly, though, the code
in article-strip-banner which deletes the banner is

(while (re-search-forward banner nil t)
	      (delete-region (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))

and if I edit the article and eval this via M-: and the explicit
banner, it all goes.  Is there some way I should be escaping newlines
in the regexp?

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. Paul Stevenson . Reasearch Fellow . University of Surrey .
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