[GLLUG] msu.edu filter option

[Marcel Kunath]

Hello, 

ever since pilot changed from pilot (I miss elm!) to mail.msu.edu my spam 
count went from 3 per week to 30 per day even though I never used the new 
account to mail anybody anymore. I used pilot to mail hundreds of people for 
3 years before the change happened. 

Anyhow so they put this new spam filter option in place recently and I 
figured I go and play with it. 

Anybody know how to make the thing work with regular expressions? 

I am trying to filter using the expression: 

/[a-zA-Z]+\.[a-zA-Z]+.*[a-zA-Z]+\.[a-zA-Z]+/ 

Mainly subject lines as follows: 

Subject: blah.blah gives you a big blah.blah 

Unfortunately its being picky with the regular expressions. Why couldn't 
they give us a text interface to fill in regular expressions instead of 
these stupid add/edit/delete buttons? 

What makes me wonder is how anybody at MSU could get any work done over the 
past 6 months because my spam to no-spam ratio was 100:1. 

Thanks, 

Marcel