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Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu> writes:

> It seems like many people are confused by this...what is the rationale
> behind it?  Was the purpose to make it not-so-surprising to people who
> don't know regular expressions?

It was an attempt at DWIM.  But DWIM is difficult.

With this, you could put (from "josh" "bla") and (from "joshua"
"lala") into nnmail-split-fancy and not be surprised.

Of course, (from "josh" "bla") and (from "josh-smith" "lala") will
still be surprising.

However, I find that it works sufficiently well to just use simple
words in the rules, it does what I need it seems.
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