On 12/04/2008 01:49 Ray Jette wrote:
> A lot of these rules look good but not appear to work for what I am
> trying to do. Sorry about all the trouble. I'm not realy that good at
> regular expressions but I am learning. Here are some real examples from
> my mail server:
>
> * PO1786
> * PO 42111
> * PO# 314980
> * PO#36605
> * PO 484579-0
> * PO:458121
> * PO: 6718972-1
> * PO's #47509
> * PO#v156-2008-003
> * PO-121556
> * PO's 47509
>
> Some of these are million's of dollers worth of orders. I can't loose
> these. I am trying to create a negative scoring rule. Thanks for any
> help you can provide. Please let me know if you need any more information.
>
> Ray Jette
>
This is pretty general:
/\bPO[#' sv:-]{0,7}[\d-]+/i
Maybe it would hit occasionally on spam, but so what? You can't afford
to loose millions of dollars of orders; you can afford to lower the
score on what might prove to be spam once in a great while.
