On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 07:25 -0800, Jeff_47 wrote: > Put another way, I'd like to be able to add a new __L_LOANS_BODY rule and > have the meta rule automatically incorporate it. Is this possible? > I have a considerably larger collection of rules and phrases, but then again, I need to filter the spew that from a mailing list linked to an unfiltered forum, so I wrote a gawk script that builds rules from a set of files, each containing the list(s) of terms that go into each rule. This doesn't save any typing or testing, but the rule definition files, which have one match term per line, are much easier to edit. You can download the package and manpage, test data (think examples) and installation instructions as a compressed tarball from here: http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/portmanteau/portmanteau.tgz
Martin