----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Bramble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Having the ability to define the test type (*WITH) per line would be nice. > >However, short of that, how many people would wonder why: > > > > sale.com > > > >in the spamdomains.txt file would cause this to fail: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >versus this in the spamdomains.txt file: > > > > domains.com > > > >which caused this to fail: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >At least ENDSWITH gives you much greater control... > > > > Well, IMO, they would be using the test in the wrong way if they were > build the file that way :) Always use the @ symbol in the first column, > that basically makes the filter act like an ENDSWITH filter since there > can only be one @ symbol in an E-mail address. The extra flexibility of > a CONTAINS filter on the second column causes no real harm. If you use the @ symbol in the first column, then you have severely limited yourself to supporting only one RDNS per domain. I use @ whenever I can, however, I cannot do that and support all of the domains that I list that use multiple delivery domains. For example: altavista. .av.com amazon.com .forevermail.com ameritech.net .sbc.com attbi.com .comcast. bellatlantic.net .verizon.net buy.com .dartmail.com compuserve.com .aol.com concentric.com .cnchost.com concentric.net .cnc.net earthlink. .mindspring. ebay.com .emailebay.com excite.com .excitenetwork.com gateway.com .dartmail.net geocities.com .yahoo.com hp.com .compaq.com juno.com .untd.com mindspring. .earthlink. msn.com .hotmail.com netscape. .aol.com netzero. .untd.com prodigy.net .yahoo. psi. .cogentco.com qwest. .uswest. sprint. .sprintlink.net swbell.net .prodigy.net uswest. .qwest. verio. .veriomail.com verizon.com .gte.com verizon.net .bellatlantic. If you need to support delivery of e-mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and sometime it comes from a mail server with RDNS of xxx.mindspring.com and sometimes it comes from xxx.earthlink.com, how would you venture to support this in your scenario by starting every domain in the first column with the @ sign? Bill --- [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.
