ietf-nntp New draft available
Stan Barber
sob at academ.com
Tue Sep 2 10:04:41 PDT 1997
> >>
> >> Section 12.5 page 29: I understood that the normal format for newsgroups is
> >> a set of wildmats:
> >>
> >> The newsgroups parameter is either a single wildmat or several wildmats
> >> separated by commas.
> >
> >Good point. It will be fixed in a future release of the document.
>
> Not according to RFC977 3.8.1. It is a list of comma separated
> newsgroups but only two meta-characters are mentioned * and ! . Wildmat
> has * but it doesn't have !, at least not according to your para 5.
Perhaps Rich could comment on this one.
> In a similar vein, para 12.4 NEWGROUPS your syntax is
>
> NEWGROUPS date time [GMT] [<wildmat>]
>
> Whereas RFC977 has
>
> NEWGROUPS date time [GMT] [<distributions>]
>
> where distributions is a comma separated list of "the
> distribution portion of a new newsgroup (e.g, 'net' in
> 'net.wombat')".
>
Do people want both formats?
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