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Steve Harris <sharris@primus.com> writes:

> I was able to strip these eGroups banners (one at the beginning _and_
> one at the end) by noting that the a simple newline properly delimits
> the banner you're struggling to kill. Do we really need a "start" and
> "end" regex pair for this?
> 
> (banner . "^---+ eGroups Sponsor\\(.+\n\\)+\n\\|^\nWant out\\? bmw\\(.\\|\n\\)*")

Is it possible to have multiple banner parameters?  I tried this
yesterday and found that it sort of worked depending on the order I
specified them, although I never quite figured out what was going
on...

-- 
. Paul Stevenson . Reasearch Fellow . University of Surrey .
I dream in beige