At Sun Aug  3 00:44:54 2003, Robert Menschel wrote:

> One warning: keep your individual words "long". I'm leaning to a minimum
> length of 4 characters. Short strings of this type of text can easily
> match random strings in PGP signatures, website management links,
> perfectly valid mailing list unsubscribe links, etc. I'm thinking of
> removing the "F0r" from the above rules for this reason (and "d0" is
> already removed, because of excessive false positives). 

One way round this is to use the \b delimiter, which matches a word
boundary. -- e.g.  

body     L_b_MaskedW0rdsc  /\b(casin0|0nline|m0re|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|F0r|[EMAIL 
PROTECTED])\b/i

Martin
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