[Mailman-Users] ban_list example?

[Scott Lambert]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:31:57AM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
>     David> I tried ...
> 
>     David> joe at abc.com
>     David> ^*@xyz.com
> 
>     David> ... but got an invalid value error.
> 
> Try
> 
>     ^.*@xyz.com

Not knowing anything about mailman's use of these values:

The "^.*something" regex is equivalent to just "something".  

"^.*" is useless, confusing and should never be used in a regex for the
regex libraries with which I am familiar.

-- 
Scott Lambert
lambert at lambertfam.org