[faq-maintainers] Re: RFC violations of this list software

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Rich Lafferty (rich@alcor.concordia.ca)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:06:29 -0400

Quoting Rich Lafferty (rich@alcor.concordia.ca) from Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 10:50:05AM -0400:
> Quoting Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) from Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 10:38:06AM -0400:
> > Debbie Douglass <douglass@chaplin.ndhm.gtegsc.com> writes:
> > > But both of these did. They're doing a search and replace on any
> > > string that matches [*@*] where the astericks indicate any
> > > character.
> >
> > Not quite any character, because that comment came through OK.
> > Probably not worth figuring out exactly what set of characters
> > they think can appear in an email address.
> >
> > Actually, there's another possibility --- I think all the examples
> > we've tried so far had a colon in front, like this: [*@*]
>
> Nope. But I bet [faqmail@landfield.com] will get replaced.

Aha. /[faqmail@landfield.com]/ seems to be it, for anyone that cared. :-)

Er, wait. It'll grab that, too. That's "slash open bracket dot star
at dot star backslash dot dot star close bracket slash". Or, if you
prefer globbing, "open bracket star at star dot star close bracket".

Somewhat appropriate how it has its own idea of what an email address
should look like, isn't it? I want my prize now :-)

-Rich

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