[leafnode-list] Re: Strawpoll: Case sensitive or insensitive filters? (was: filtering newsgroups)

[Whiskers]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:00:41 +0200 "Matthias Andree"
<matthias.andree at gmx.de>   wrote:
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> OK, having seen that problem: do users generally consider "case
> insensitive" a saner default for leafnode-2? It's slower (may be
> noticable on 2 GHz machines), but should not hurt too much.
> (leafnode 2 currently compiles filters only with PCRE_MULTILINE)
> 
> If the default were changed, (?-i) could be used in a pattern to make it
> case sensitive again.

I would prefer 'case sensitive' to be the default; that seems to be the 
default for most *nix software.

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