From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: stamp out dot files!
Article-I.D.: alice.1019
Posted: Wed Oct 27 07:46:37 1982
Received: Thu Oct 28 02:09:52 1982
References: utcsstat.366

If .* gives you . and .. from the shell, just use .[a-z]*