From: Ben Giddings <ben@...>
Date: 2003-08-05T13:44:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Take a Fantasy Cruise with Me!

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 12:38  AM, Phil Tomson wrote:
> In article <200308042240.22031.ben@thingmagic.com>,
> Ben Giddings  <ben@thingmagic.com> wrote:
>> On Mon August 4 2003 10:18 pm, Clifford Heath wrote:
>>> "make.*reservation"
>>> "thanks for.*regist"
>>
>> On this list I can easily imagine seeing:
>>
>>  Ruby Conference 2003 is rapidly approaching.  If you'd like to make a
>>  reservation, talk to me, if you've already registered, thanks for 
>> your
>>  registration.
>
> Yeah, but I notice that you couldn't imagine seeing the word 
> 'girlfriend'
> show up in a message to this list ;-)

Aha!  It just did.  And besides, the regular expression wasn't just 
"girlfriend" (which might show up) but  "with.*my girlfriends".  
Plural, and written by someone on this list??  Not very likely... 
unfortunately.  :)

Ben