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But the in the screen capture of article, the user name is actually 'issac.asimov', i.e. the mime type does not immediately follow the dot.

• ajkjk 5y ago
  That was before the fix.
• nobody9999 5y ago
  >But the in the screen capture of article, the user name is actually 'issac.asimov', i.e. the mime type does not immediately follow the dot. A variation on the Scunthorpe Problem[0] then, eh? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
  • whizzter 5y ago
    Somebody probably put in a regexp with .mov$ , however for regexps the dot (.) matches everything (and $ matches end) so the i in asimov is eaten regardless and then the rest of the match succeeds.
    • chippiewill 5y ago
      You can see the fix they made in the linked MR. It wasn't a regex, they just did a generic "ends with" check.
  • iechoz6H 5y ago
    Perhaps the sub-clause is redundant there? 'The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's profanity filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring "cunt".'
    • nobody9999 5y ago
      >'The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's profanity filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring "cunt".' Right. Regardless of the specific pattern matching function, in both cases, the results were both incorrect and unwanted. Which is why I consider this instance to be a variation on the same issue.
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