From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6833 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Pieri Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Nice score file bug Date: 20 Jun 1996 10:12:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9606200948.AA02349@joyds1.joensuu.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147233 4903 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:53:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:53:53 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA23225 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 07:49:53 -0700 Original-Received: from unilab.dfci.harvard.edu (unilab.dfci.harvard.edu [155.52.46.57]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 16:13:32 +0200 Original-Received: (from ratinox@localhost) by unilab.dfci.harvard.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA22530; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:12:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: "H. V\dis\dnen"'s message of Thu, 20 Jun 1996 12:48:52 +0300 (EET DST) Original-Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.19/XEmacs 19.13 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6833 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6833 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>> "HV" == H V\dis\dnen writes: HV> After updating my all.SCORE file, gnus killed almost all articles. HV> The buggy line looked something like this (-: HV> ("references" ("foo\\|bar\\|cafe\\|xyzzy\\|" -1000 nil r)) ^^^^ Because a zero-length search string will match (return 0) in any string. Oops. This is not a bug at all; a zero-length string is a valid subset of any string. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMclcX56VRH7BJMxHAQE8UAP8DUF2RdVKf8gVIjr3xH8EyZOcFKNEe5F3 dACrn9bgiUk9Phbm8KrxkqOTZijFtiVpvu10mxrhr9ufWqh9JxnLmvgfgNvQ6n8Z DTEmECD2f3wbYofJzsVsm5BDZVk9fRF4f8F9bqwu0u8bIw/Xx9JsuKFonaT3zmTe eBOVi77oDpk= =rEy6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Richard Pieri/Information Services \ Climb your way to the top; that's why the \ drapes are there. -A cat's guide to life http://www.dfci.harvard.edu/ \