I have a wildly elaborate set of rules to send various pieces of e-mail on my home system into the right folder. Needless to say, it still doesn’t always work, but …
Well, I have a D&D folder for generic/fantasy D20 e-mail messages. Sometimes odd, stray messages drop in there, but I just figured something odd was up with the rules.
The crowning irony (at least for the “Dungeons & Dragons Is the Tool of Satan!” crowd) was when I got home and found the minutes of our December church vestry meeting had been routed there.
Okay, that’s enough now …
Checked the rules. I’d pared them down quite a bit at one point because of false positives, but …
message body contains “d&d” or “hobbit” or “dwarves” or “ogre” or “dwarf” or “paladin” or “necropolis”
Well, that seems pretty straightforward. Problem is, I didn’t see any of that in the minutes. Something odd hiding in the headers? No. What the …
Okay, don’t pay attention to eyeballs, do a search.
Try “d&d.” Nope. Try “hobbit.” Nope. Try “dwarves.” Nope. Try “ogre.” No — huh?
Cue “D’oh” moment. “Ogre” happens to be a subset of the relatively common word, “progress.”
And given that I once had to take “elves” and “elf” out of there for the same reason, cue that “d’oh” again.
Well, one mystery solved, at least.