On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 11:39 -0400, Daniel Schaefer wrote: > McDonald, Dan wrote:
> Since we're sharing rules for this recent Spam outbreak, here is my rule: > body DRUG_SITE /www(\.|\ > )*(med|meds|gen|pill|shop|via|cu|co|ba|da|bu|ba)[0-9]{2}(\.|\ )*(net|com)/ You should avoid the use of *, as it allows spammers to consume all of your memory and cpu. limit it using the {} syntax. You also should tell perl to not keep the results of your () with (?:\.|\ ) instead of (\.|\ ). And with single characters, the [ab] syntax is faster to process than (?:a|b). -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX www.austinenergy.com
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