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Re: newbie question about autoreply (vacation) subject line

2003-05-28 11:12:55
LuKreme wrote:
On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 21:11 Canada/Mountain, Ricky Buchanan wrote:
LuKreme wrote:
* !^Precedence:(.*\<)(bulk|list|junk)
* !^X-Loop:(.*\<)furball(_at_)kitty(_dot_)com
Idle curiosity:  Why do you put the .*\< in brackets?  Isn't that
totally a do-nothing thing, since brackets are only used in procmail
basically for presenting alternatives (like in the first quoted line)
and you're not presenting any alternatives.
the (.*\<) is superior to a straight .* for a number of reasons, all of 
which have been done to death on the list

That was not my question.  My question was what is the technical
difference between
   .*\<
and
   (.*\<)

Unless you are going to write (.*\<)? - in which case the brackets are
required - I don't see why you put them in.

Also, parentheses () are not brackets [].

Go back to your Jargon File and look up "Commonwealth Hackish".  I'm
from Australia.


Regards,
Ricky&

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