Morning everyone,
Because all is going so well, I decided I'd screw with things a bit more
:)
I have just downloaded Tom's Image FX kill list and I'm looking through
it.
What I don't understand is, what is the difference between these 2
entries:
@example.com and .example.com
(obviously the
What I don't understand is, what is the difference between these 2
entries:
@example.com and .example.com
(obviously the difference is the @ and the ., but what exactly does
this mean?)
The blacklisting works on a partial match. So if you have @example.com,
it would catch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the preceeding characters prevents this.
HTH
_M
| -Original Message-
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
| Sharyn Schmidt
| Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:24 AM
| To: Declude Junkmail List
| Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Toms Kill List
|
|
| Morning
The preceding @ ensures that the match is an email with the example
domain. The preceding . ensures that the match is the domain used in a
host link like www.example.com and so forth. Without these preceding
characters the following might also match incorrectly...
legitimatexample.com
