bbxrider wrote:
> i'm not familiar with the term file-glob-style-patterns, so my question is do
> * and ? work like traditional searching tools?
>   
I don't know what you mean "searching tools", but it's the same patterns
used by any ordinary dos command prompt or unix shell.

"globbing" is what the shell does to interpret things like "ls bayes*",
or on windows "dir bayes*", hence the term "file-glob-style-patterns".

> for creating a blacklist_from entry,
> where [EMAIL PROTECTED] would block any email from domain.com that
> started with 'fakename' and had any number of characters after fakename and
> before @
> where [EMAIL PROTECTED] would block any email from domain.com that
> started with 'fakename' and had any 3 characters following 'fakename' and
> before @, but only 3 characters no more no less
>   
That is 100% correct.
> thanks bbxrider
>
>   

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