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Re: vacation response

2000-04-23 03:01:43
From: "David W. Tamkin" <dattier(_at_)ripco(_dot_)com>

Dallman suggested,

| Well, in that vein, couldn't X-.*-List also not match this?
| 
|     X-Reminder: D-Man's Wish-List

Yes, but ^X-.*-List:, which is what Bennett is using, would not.  Then again,
it would match

      X-Reminder: D-Man's Wish List: Rewrite in Invisible Ink and Shred

In the vein of the precision which I consistently lacked earlier (by
failing to react to the colon in his recipe), I'll remark that yours
wouldn't match the orginal either.  :-)  But this would:

        X-Reminder: D-Man's Wish-List: Rewrite in Invisible Ink and Shred

Still like to know what was wrong with my final suggestion, if
anything:

        * ! ^(X?|Mailing)-?[a-z-]*List[a-z:-]+

Although it would match somewhat more than was stated in the interest
of the single line, I don't find it overly course, especially when
compared with the couple of .* phrases that the originals had.


| Also, I must confess that it has never occurred to me that someone
| sending me a cc. wouldn't expect to be sent a vacation message.  Is
| that really such a hard-and-fast rule?  If I cc. someone who has a
| vacation message, *I* would prefer to get the message.

If it is important to know whether a recipient is present to read a
message, it should be sent To: him/her.  Cc: is intended for FYI'ing
people who are ancillary to the exchange, to whom the text is not
directly addressed.

I find that there are levels of ancillary, and then there are levels
of ancillary.  :)

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