From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12510 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Waldherr Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: (make-regexp...) in an alist Date: 03 Oct 1997 21:55:50 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon University -- Computer Science Department Sender: swa+@mind.learning.cs.cmu.edu Message-ID: References: <2655-Fri03Oct1997171554-0400-norm@berkshire.net> Reply-To: Stefan Waldherr NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152032 4139 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:13:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:13:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA16879 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 19:51:08 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA16186 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 21:44:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 03:56:23 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 31540 invoked by uid 504); 4 Oct 1997 01:56:22 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 31537 invoked from network); 4 Oct 1997 01:56:22 -0000 Original-Received: from mind.learning.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.185.27) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 4 Oct 1997 01:56:22 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.66/XEmacs 19.15 X-Url: http://mind.learning.cs.cmu.edu/ X-Face: "-=6){9J':KXui`/fiH#,g(pr\2Rv'7{dSci>!;1r2zpWB*qcI6gH^LoLQjSSNSg@ee_n~dV]|;5T7=d6_FNPEvqKDk`OWLB[CKOkG.M6{J.??WB*1Wk`y?de2[56)Iv"y#tg@p]~%_3>&;;PQ-{A)UcZ_?nj@b(FN]!Sq6QS9YuGJZ3qkdPq(h-olTvcq0,TS%?i]ddP2E'&^ud Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12510 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12510 >>>>> "Norman" == Norman Walsh writes: Norman> So I started building the nnmail-split-methods alist and Norman> discovered that there are some parts I just don't want to build by Norman> hand. Then I found (make-regexp) and was happy again. Can some kind soul explain me, why I would want to use it at all? It as in `make-regexp', not `nnmail-split-methods'. Why not using multiple rules ("spam" "From:.*@savetrees.com") ("spam" "From:.*@ispam.net") ...etc. add nauseum here ("spam" "Subject:.*are you being investigated") Thanks, Stefan. -- Stefan Waldherr office +1 (412) 268-3837 fax +1 (412) 268-5576 e-Mail swa@cs.cmu.edu www http://mind.learning.cs.cmu.edu/