high spam ruleset, is this right?

[Julian Field]

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Hi,
> Writing a ruleset for high spam actions, is this correct?
>
> To:\tadmissions at colby.edu\tforward 
> jaearick at colby.edu,dsjones at colby.edu delete
> FromOrTo:\tdefault\tdelete
>
> Tabs (\t above) are required, right?  I want high spam for
> admissions to be forwarded to myself and dsjones and be
> deleted from the admissions mailbox.  Will this work?
I've just read all the responses to this one, all sorts of interesting 
theories :-)
The tabs are not necessary, any whitespace will do.
The "delete" makes it look better, if that sort of thing yanks your chain.
Separate the multiple email addresses with spaces, not commas.
And the "forward" only actually makes it look pretty, too, but don't 
tell the syntax police I said that...

This should do the same thing, and still look quite nice.
To: admissions at colby.edu forward jaearick at colby.edu dsjones at colby.edu
FromOrTo: default delete

A million other variants would work too, I'm not particularly fussy 
about syntax, I can usually work out what you meant to write (for the 
value of me == MailScanner).

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