high spam ruleset, is this right?

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Julian,
    Thanks.  I didn't realize the syntax was so forgiving.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:00:56 +0000
> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: high spam ruleset, is this right?
> 
>
>
> 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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