What's the difference? Your meta rule is fundamentally identical to Loren's rule, is it not?!
Cheers, Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Loren Wilton wrote: > header LW_NONEWS Subject =~ /^Re:\s.*\bnews$/i ... > The .* should be safe in that regex since a subject isn't very long > and the things on either side are anchored. If you're paranoid you could do a couple of meta rules: header _SUBJECT_STARTSWITH_RE Subject =~ /^Re:\s/i header _SUBJECT_ENDSWITH_NEWS Subject =~ /\bnews$/i meta SUBJECT_IS_RE_NEWS (_SUBJECT_STARTSWITH_RE && _SUBJECT_ENDSWITH_NEWS) -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer