On 2 Feb 2005 22:18:46 -0500, DoN. Nichols wrote:
"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
...

Ah. Another tactic I use, is that if a post is crossposted to 3 or more
groups, I don't see it.

With unix wildcarding (regular expressions), the match string
would be:
Newsgroups: .*,.*,.*
to detect three or more newsgroups in the cross posting. In unix REs,
'.' stands for any character, and following it with '*' means any number
of characters (until you get to a match for the first non-wildcard
character, the ',').

Ah, so that's why I have ,.*, rather than *,*,* - although, unless
the line starts with a comma, mine would false hit on it. Why . instead
of ? in this context, I wonder? (Oh, and hi again in another place, Don!)

For Windows, at a guess, it would be more like:
Newsgroups: *,*,*

Pretty sure that'll hit in *nix as well.

Dave Hinz