On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 14:43 +0300, Eli Wapniarski wrote: > What makes the Elipse and for that matter any use of a period inside > the subject line so bad is that most filters rely on regular > expressions to filter. Most filters use more than one criterion, and don't make yes or no decisions based solely on the Subject line. > The period is a special character in regex processors which means all. Actually it means any single character, but whatever ... > If one were to create a simple filter based on the period, they would > be blocking everything. So this trick is utilized to get past those > filters. > > A manual creation of the filter which would include \. would be > required. What you're saying is that filtering ellipses requires you to escape the '.' character. I assume you must be doing that already, on the presumption that ellipses are evil. So what is your point? > Until I created the filter to block out elipses. I would get all sorts > of bad mail trying to sell me all sorts of stuff that you would not > want sold to you, or to visit all sorts of sites you would not want > your kids to visit. So, to answer your question, yes I have blocked > elipses for a very long time. I will continue to block elipses, and I > am quite confident, because of this issue other aggressive filters > will also block them. > > You can do what you wish. I am not going to get into a trolling match > with anyone. I am relating my experience and made a request thats all. > If you choose to continue using elipses thats fine thats up to you. :) Thanks, I intend to. BTW, the word is "ellipse" (two l's). Also, please don't top-post. See the list Guidelines. poc _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
