high spam ruleset, is this right?

[Julian Field]

I try to work out what you meant, regardless of typos, mis-spellings, 
whatever. If I am trying to work out whether you said From, To, or 
FromOrTo, then all I actually need is look for an "f", a "t" or both in 
the word. And things like the ":" usually put after it is purely visual, 
it doesn't affect my ability to parse the line. It's all just part of 
the first word of the line.

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> 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>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> 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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