>On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:01:11 -0400, "Hugh W. Jarvis"
><[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>>I ran a yadda@*.ru  (for a Russian address) and the
>>return included two rutgers.edu accounts! Anyone else noticed this sort of
>>thing? Maybe the cripting needs to be tweaked a little...
>
>And the Rutgers.edu addresses were really  [log in to unmask]  Which
>is a valid match for your search string.

To expand on this, scan looks for an address or name substring.
Scanning for yadda, for instance, would match "[log in to unmask]",
"[log in to unmask]", "[log in to unmask]", and so on.

Scanning for yadda@*.ru matches [log in to unmask] because
it matches a substring of that address as follows:

        [log in to unmask]
        yadda@    *    .ru

Make sense?

-jwgh
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