I recommend a simple scheme of simple characters and escape sequences. Borrowing from our Message Sniffer rule coding, how about _ as a space, and if you really need the _ character itself then you use \_. Then you also have to use \\ when you want the \, but that's a small price to pay and it's easy to code.
Just a thought. _M |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kami Razvan |Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 5:54 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Subject Starts with | | |[Bill] [stranger] [things] [have] [happened] [in] [the] [past]. | |[space] [may] [not] [be] [used] [but] [starting] [reserve] |[words] [can] [start] [a] [precedent] [that] [could] [make] |[filtering] [and] [debugging] [a] [nightmare]. | |[Regards,] [:)] |[Kami] | | |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Landry |Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 5:32 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Subject Starts with | |It's not really a reserved word since the suggestion was |"space" enclosed in square brackets - how often have you seen |that used in a sentence: wow, I really [space] out sometimes... ;-) | |Bill |----- Original Message ----- |From: "John Tolmachoff (Lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:27 PM |Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Subject Starts with | | |> I have to agree with Kami. I would rather not define reserved words. |> |> John Tolmachoff |> Engineer/Consultant/Owner |> eServices For You |> |> |> > -----Original Message----- |> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail- |> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kami Razvan |> > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 12:36 PM |> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |> > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Subject Starts with |> > |> > Matt.. |> > |> > This is scary .. Now you are suggesting we start defining reserve |words.. |> > |> > This way, if it starts a trend, we can not filter on [space] |> > anymore.. |> > |> > Just a thought. |> > |> > Kami |> > |> > |> > -----Original Message----- |> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew |> > Bramble |> > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 3:23 PM |> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |> > Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Subject Starts with |> > |> > Scott, |> > |> > Instead of adding it a command, how about you just create a |> > substitution string for space, i.e. [space]. This way it could be |> > used in this fashion, as well as before some words (as a delimiter |> > in the sense that Bill earlier |> > suggested). |> > |> > SUBJECT 0 BEGINSWITH [space] |> > BODY 0 CONTAINS [space]ass |> > |> > Matt |> > |> > |> > |> > R. Scott Perry wrote: |> > |> > > |> > >> Scott, feature request. (Sigh, another one.) |> > >> |> > >> Can you add something like this: |> > >> |> > >> SUBJECT 0 STARTSWITHSPACE |> > >> |> > >> I am seeing a good amount of spam where the subject line starts |> > >> with a space and then some character and then the subject. |> > > |> > > |> > > Ah, good idea -- I'll see if we can add that. |> > > |> > > -Scott |> > > |> > |> > --- |> > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus |> > (http://www.declude.com)] |> > |> > --- |> > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To |unsubscribe, |> > just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe |> > Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at |> > http://www.mail-archive.com. |> > |> > --- |> > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus |> > (http://www.declude.com)] |> > |> > --- |> > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To |> > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type |> > "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at |> > http://www.mail-archive.com. |> |> --- |> [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus |(http://www.declude.com)] |> |> --- |> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To |> unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type |> "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at |> http://www.mail-archive.com. |> |> .com. |> | |--- |[This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.