It is safer to include it. It has something to do with matching. it cuts it off or it allow more. Some one please explain. -----Original Message----- From: Cathy-0 <chorn0591@optimum.net> To: listowners <listowners@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Jun 28, 2012 12:52 pm Subject: Re: [LO] Board spam gatewayed to list Does one need to include the " ^ " before the gc-gateway email address? Just want to confirm whether or not it is necessary and not a typo. It is safer to include it. It has something to do with matching. it cuts it off or it allow more. Some one please explain. -----Original Message----- From: Cathy-0 <chorn0591@optimum.net> To: listowners <listowners@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Jun 28, 2012 12:52 pm Subject: Re: [LO] Board spam gatewayed to list Does one need to include the " ^ " before the gc-gateway email address? Just want to confirm whether or not it is necessary and not a typo.

At 6-28-2012 02:01 PM, Paul L LeBlanc wrote: >It is safer to include it. It has something to do with matching. it >cuts it off or it allow more. > >Some one please explain. If would guess that it has to do with Regular Expressions (regex). Regular Expressions are a computer language used to do highly sophisticated searches of plain text. "^" means "start this search from the beginning of the line". (I'd also assume that means that the rest of the 'stuff' in the From: line - other than the email address - is stripped before Mailman does its checks.) If anybody is interested in learning more: http://www.regular-expressions.info/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression