From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
To: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh@usa.net>
Cc: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [Meta] Enough of the "egcs.cygnus.com" already!
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:50:00 -0000
Message-id: <or1zkaefaa.fsf@araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br>
References: <3.0.6.32.19990201015056.00845d30@pop.netaddress.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-01/msg00493.html

On Feb  1, 1999, Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh@usa.net> wrote:

> At 05:13 PM 2/1/99 +1100, you wrote:
>> /^From
> (egcs(-|-testresults-|-announce-)return-[0-9]+-cat\=zip\.com\.au\@egcs\.cygn
> us\.com|owner-egcs-bugs\@cygnus\.com)/

> Oh my God that regular expression gives me a migraine just looking at it!

:-)

> I have Eudora -- it allows substring matching in headers but nothing this
> complex. :P Also, the EGCS mail I receive always has From: of the original
> sender, never egcs or egcs-testresults or whatever.

It matches the `From egcs...' line, not `From: ...'.  That is the
first line in a Unix mailbox message, and the information in there is
extracted from the SMTP envelope.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil