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[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

Hi Erik,

On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:23:11 -0700
Erik Olson <address@concealed> wrote:

> In the hobby mailing lists I admin, there are occasional messages posted 
> that really need to be replied to off-list, and with the continuing 
> trend of mailers to obscure what you're replying to, people just 
> occasionally 'miss' and send an inappropriate reply to the list.
> 
> I added a line to our custom scenario file (thanks to this list for 
> pointing me in that direction, btw) as such:
> 
>     match([header->Subject][0],/.*Re:.*offlist.*/)    -> editorkey
> 
> with the idea that anyone including the word "offlist" in the subject 
> would be fine, but if someone tries to reply to the post, it gets moderated.
> 
> This worked great until someone tried a longer-ish subject line, "Would 
> you participate in a virtual gift exchange at the December meeting? 
> (reply offlist please)"
> 
> The replies did not get moderated.  I think the culprit is that the 
> subject is split into multiple lines - it looks that way in the source:
> 
>     Subject: Re: [testing] [Airstone] Would you participate in a virtual 
> gift
>       exchange at the December meeting? (reply offlist please)
> 
> Is there a way to check against the entire concatenated header?

Though I haven't confirmed, perhaps

    [msg->decoded_subject]

instead of "[header->Subject][0]" may give what you want.


Regards,
-- Soji


> Thanks as always for the insight of this list,
> 
>    - Erik
> 
> -- 
> 
> Erik Olson address@concealed


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