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With joe but without bill

PostPosted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:36 am
by ozzii
Hi,

I would like, if it's possible, to do a filter who accept all thes subject with "joe" but not the subject with "joe" and "bill".
So I will see the subjects with "joe......john" but not with "joe.....bill".

I am clear enough :?:

PostPosted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:40 am
by ozzii
I answer to myself.

Silly question :oops:
put joe into the accept filter and bill into the deny filter (because I don't want to see all the subjects with bill).

But my question remain if I want to filter just the subjects for joe and bill into the same subject.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:59 pm
by Smite
So, you're looking for how to do an AND?
http://forums.newsbin.com/viewtopic.php?t=1671

PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:28 am
by ozzii
I don't this it's just an AND.
It's more like : joe NOT (joe AND bill)

PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 5:49 am
by itimpi
the problem is that RegEx does not include an explicit AND operator so you have to work around that limitation.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:02 pm
by Smite
Yes, so enter "Joe" in the accept, and "Joe AND Bill" (using the regex explained there) in the reject.

But this will accomplish the same thing as just "Joe" in the accept and "Bill" in the reject, since anything passing the Joe filter already has Joe in it, so rejecting "Joe AND Bill" is redundant.