help with regular expression (for spam catching)

Reuben D. Budiardja techlist at voyager.phys.utk.edu
Fri Jun 4 19:14:46 UTC 2004


On Friday 04 June 2004 02:23 pm, Chris W. Parker wrote:
> hello.
>
>
> but how do you identify those same words when random punctuation is
> thrown in?
>
>   vi.agra
>   v1a;gr.a
>   etc.
>
> is it possible for a regular expression to do something like the
> following:

I can't help you with regex, but I've read something like this, maybe in the 
mozilla list or something about mozilla mail filtering. I wish I could 
remember the name, but IIRC, they are implementing something like this. 
Probably in spamassasin also, but I don't know (the memory is very vague). 

What are you using for filtering? regular procmail ?


RDB
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