Re: how to use bbdb-snarf to capture addresses from point

[Roland Winkler]

On Mon Jan 27 2020 Bob Newell wrote:
> The trick is, though, that it isn't always possible to cleanly
> define a region with just the info you want. I've tried
> various things along those lines and often end up with a
> completely extraneous note field.

The snarfing rule 'mail only populates the fields firstname,
lastname and mail.  So in this case you should not get an extraneous
note field.  But I agree that this may happen with the other rules
'us and 'eu.  These rules operate in a rather heuristic way.  It is
difficult to make them more fool-proofed (though suggestions are
always welcome).  However, in my experience it is often easier to
delete an extraneous field or fix whatever other mistakes in a
snarfed record than entering a complete record by hand.