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 …<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Okay, that’s enough now …<\/i><\/p>\n
Checked the rules. I’d pared them down quite a bit at one point because of false positives, but …<\/p>\n
message body contains “d&d” or “hobbit” or “dwarves” or “ogre” or “dwarf” or “paladin” or “necropolis”<\/p>\n
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 …<\/p>\n
Okay, don’t pay attention to eyeballs, do a search.<\/p>\n
Try “d&d.” Nope. Try “hobbit.” Nope. Try “dwarves.” Nope. Try “ogre.” No — huh?<\/i><\/p>\n
Cue “D’oh” moment. “Ogre” happens to be a subset of the relatively common word, “progress.”<\/p>\n
And given that I once had to take “elves” and “elf” out of there for the same reason, cue that “d’oh” again.<\/p>\n
Well, one mystery solved, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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