From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3770 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?Johan_Bockg=E5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: regexp filter Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 18:26:32 +0200 Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Message-ID: References: <86ekpy290o.fsf@number6.magda.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669779 20218 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:09:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:32:43 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed3.funet.fi!193.166.3.20.MISMATCH!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!dd.chalmers.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: frealaf.dd.chalmers.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.2 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cFGidX+4ewCXxcuiKSLd+7+i0Yo= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3911 Original-Lines: 17 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3911 Tue Jan 17 17:32:43 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3770 Archived-At: David Magda writes: > Trying to setup use a filter (through 'L') to get rid of common span > in Usenet. Specifically, I'm trying to get rid of spam with subject > line like the following: > > Britney Spears and justin timberlake 8272 > > So I do a key sequence of L-> s -> r -> t. When asked for the string > I tried ".* [:digit:]{4}" as well as ".* [0-9]{4}" (throwing in a $ > at the end would also make the regexp more precise). I also tried > escaping the spaces ('\ '). .* [[:digit:]]\{4\}$ -- Johan Bockgård