[Mailman-Developers] Regexp filtering
Barry Warsaw
barry at list.org
Tue Mar 1 09:26:13 EST 2016
On Mar 01, 2016, at 11:13 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>In theory we could use globs as well (some of the modern VCSes permit
>glob or regexp syntax), but it's not a serious data loss issue for a
>VCS if a mistake is made. You just run the add command again with -f,
>or uncommit, or whatever. Granted, a perverse enough user could fail
>to add a file, commit, then overwrite the file, but this is much less
>serious than the possibility that a particular user would end up as
>collateral damage to a spam filter.
globs make sense for file system operations, and we've been using them for
decades in shells. I think globs make less sense for header value pattern
matching.
Cheers,
-Barry
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