Re: [Mailman-Users] Expressions to reduce spam

2016-11-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Cyndi Norwitz writes: > As for "everyone should learn regular expressions”... Not everyone. Just *some* list admins whose security professionals are unresponsive, or who are their own security admins. > Sure, maybe. But I think it’s overkill. I mean I don’t require > all my soap customers t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Expressions to reduce spam

2016-11-28 Thread Cyndi Norwitz
> On Nov 13, 2016, at 8:04 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > On 11/13/2016 07:55 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >> Or to get more than one tld with one regexp >> >> *.*\.(site|win|othertop)$ > > Ooops. Should be > > ^.*\.(site|win|othertop)$ Thanks to everyone who replied! I want to clarify that I don’

Re: [Mailman-Users] Expressions to reduce spam

2016-11-13 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 11/13/2016 07:55 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > Or to get more than one tld with one regexp > > *.*\.(site|win|othertop)$ Ooops. Should be ^.*\.(site|win|othertop)$ -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Expressions to reduce spam

2016-11-13 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 11/13/2016 03:57 PM, Larry Kuenning wrote: > On 11/13/2016 5:17 PM, Cyndi Norwitz wrote: > >> My latest failure is: ^[^@]+@(.*\.)*\.top$ > > It looks like what fails here is that the expression requires two dots > before "top": some...@something..top would be caught but not > some...@somethin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Expressions to reduce spam

2016-11-13 Thread Larry Kuenning
On 11/13/2016 5:17 PM, Cyndi Norwitz wrote: My latest failure is: ^[^@]+@(.*\.)*\.top$ It looks like what fails here is that the expression requires two dots before "top": some...@something..top would be caught but not some...@something.top. So try this: ^[^@]+@(.*\.)*top$ Or probably b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Expressions to reduce spam

2016-11-13 Thread D L Josephson
On 11/13/16 2:17 PM, Cyndi Norwitz wrote: Now I need one more. Addresses that end in X. For example, I get TONS of attempted posts to one of my lists from the top level domain top. They’re 100% spam and the domain names are completely different and random. Nothing I tried works. I haven’t k

Re: [Mailman-Users] Expressions to reduce spam

2016-11-13 Thread Richard Damon
On 11/13/16 5:17 PM, Cyndi Norwitz wrote: Hi, I use the "List of non-member addresses whose postings will be automatically discarded” feature a ton. In the past you have helped me to figure out the correct expressions to use to discard emails from the following: 1) The whole email (no help ne

[Mailman-Users] Expressions to reduce spam

2016-11-13 Thread Cyndi Norwitz
Hi, I use the "List of non-member addresses whose postings will be automatically discarded” feature a ton. In the past you have helped me to figure out the correct expressions to use to discard emails from the following: 1) The whole email (no help needed, this one is obvious). 2) Addresses tha