John Henders writes:
>
> I think Philip is away,
He's back (for one week), but no doubt wading through the backlog...
> but is anyone else using the new filter rules
> and @@lsearch;/some/file lookup? My reading of the newstuff file is that
> the following should reject an 8 digit username from any site.
>
> *: ^\d{8}$
>
> Sadly, this doesn't appear to be the case. Is it broken, or am I
> misreading that section of the NewStuff file.
That would only work if you were using "@@lsearch*:/some/file" (as we do
on one system here), or "@@partial0-lsearch:/some/file", or anyway some
search operator that will look up "*" if all else fails. Don't forget to
put a ">*" item on the end of other entries in /some/file (or you can
duplicate the contents of the "*" entry there, of course). I have a
simple-minded Perl script that takes a list and builds a file suitable
for @@lsearch* -- let me know if you want a copy.
There are a few domains that actually use 8-digit local-parts for valid
accounts. I imagine they must be regretting that now.
Chris Thompson Cambridge University Computing Service,
Email: cet1@??? New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom.
