Re: Score and Xref

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:38:26AM -0600, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
> Larry Moore wrote:
> > If I make a Score entry that includes
> > Xref:: uk\.religion\.islam:316522
> > Would it (assuming -9999) kill  messages that reference that message?
> 
> Yes, but I don't understand the double colon after "Xref".  So:

The double colon is from my misunderstanding a message I read.
Thanks for making that clear.

> > If I made a Score entry that said
> > Xref:: uk\.religion\.islam:.*
> > would it kill/block  messages  crossposted to uk.religion.islam ?
> 
> Yes, but you don't need the ".*" at the end.  There's an implied one of 
> those at either end if you're not matching the ends of the line ("^" for 
> the beginning of the line and "$" for the end of the line).
> 

I tried that and it took care of the spam problem, thanks for your
advice.

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