Re: new spam.el functionality

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, asf@void.at wrote:
> Today, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
>> Regular expression matching against headers.  You define a list of
>> regular expressions in spam-regex-headers-spam and
>> spam-regex-headers-ham, and set spam-use-regex-headers to t.
>> spam-split will invoke spam-check-regex-headers.
> 
> Hm, isn't whitelist and blacklist functionality a subset of the
> regex matching functionality? Could these three be merged easily?

I wouldn't merge them, they have very different purposes and
white/blacklists store their lists in files, but you could certainly
emulate white/blacklists with regex-headers if you wanted.  I don't
think anyone would.

Ted