Sorry, I missed the fact that you were doing a SCAN and not a QUERY

        Judith Hopkins

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Jacob Haller wrote:

> >On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Jacob Haller wrote:
> >
> >> >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!
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >
> >  That implies implicit right truncation.   I have always understood
> >    that in querying for e-mail addresses all truncation had to be
> >    explicit; that for  [log in to unmask]  to be retrieved
> >    the search would have to be:  yadda@*.ru*
>
> That's true for "q listname for [addresspossiblyincludingwildcards]",
> but scan functions as I describe.
>
> Scan means 'look for substring', where as Query requires a full email
> address (which can include wildcards).
> --
> Jacob Haller, Technical Support
> L-Soft international, Inc
> http://www.lsoft.com/
>
>