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/ > >