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|    mark lewis to Ben Ritchey    |
|    Rules processing    |
|    02 Apr 17 02:15:54    |
   
    On 2017 Apr 01 20:02:02, you wrote to All:   
      
    BR> The Rule file name (x-x.RUL) is generated from the TAG value (1st 8   
    BR> characters or less) followed by ".RUL" and is automatically stored in   
    BR> the RULEs field.   
      
   PASCAL_LESSONS will break it... in fact, any echo with more than eight   
   characters in the tag will break... it will be worse if there are two or more   
   with the same first eight characters (eg: ALT-COMP-ANTI-VIRUS and   
   ALT-COMP-WIDGETS)... this was a problem in the last implementation, too... the   
   name that the ruletext is stored in should be taken from the RULE line in the   
   MOD UPD instead of the other way around... that way an eight character   
   filename can be given to the RUL file by the moderator...   
      
   eg: RULE PASSLESS.RUL   
    RULE ACAVIRUS.RUL   
    RULE ACWIDGET.RUL   
      
   a quick grep finds 78 echotags with nine or more characters in my .NA files...   
      
    grep -E -e "^[A-Z0-9_\-]{9,} " *.na   
      
   but i might have missed something, again...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   Always Mount a Scratch Monkey   
   Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it   
   wrong...   
   ... The worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth.   
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    * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)   
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