>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).
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Jacob Haller, Technical Support
L-Soft international, Inc
http://www.lsoft.com/