pattern matching

[David W. Summers]

In article <11733 at well.UUCP>, pokey at well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
> In the referenced message, mhb at hcx.uucp (MARK H BOTNER) wrote:
> }My address is:
> }     mhb at cseg.uucp
> 
> That address is useless, so I'm posting this.  This is free software, no
> copyright or trade secret restrictions whatsoever.
> ---
> Jef
> 
>             Jef Poskanzer   jef at helios.ee.lbl.gov   ...well!pokey

Thank you for replying to Mark Botner.  He and I are working on some routines
to allow a BBS to do file matching on user entered patterns.

My question is:  Why is this addresses useless?  I noticed that you had the
the same return address in your 'From: ' header (specifically,
"pokey at well.uucp").  This is the same *type* of address as ours.  Even the
"well!pokey" is the same type of address, although your other address in your
signature is obviously a domain name type which is different.  I don't think
our address is really useless as I can mail to ANYONE with that type of 
address (as long as the routing maps are correct).

- David Summers
(dws at cseg.uucp) - The "curious about E-Mail" and "wanting to get it right" guy.