Ok, it is driving me nuts. Here is the line from the mlist table:
SELECT *
FROM `fud26_mlist`
+----+----------+-----------------------+------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------+-----------+
| id | forum_id | name | subject_regex_haystack | subject_regex_needle | body_regex_haystack | body_regex_needle | additional_headers | mlist_opt |
+----+----------+-----------------------+------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------+-----------+
| 1 | 36 | mysql(at)lists(dot)mysql(dot)com | | | /"--[\r\n]+MySQL General Mailing List.*"/m | | | 34 |
+----+----------+-----------------------+------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------+-----------+
But I am not getting the tag stripped.