ietf-nntp new draft of the NNTP spec released

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Jul 20 10:09:33 PDT 1999


Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> Yes, but in our current draft the ',' notation is only allowed in the
> NEWNEWS command, whereas it would we useful to have it in various of the
> LIST commands. Does INN allow it in those places? I don't really mind
> whether the ',' and the '!' are part of the wildmat syntax or not, so
> long as they are allowed to be used somehow in all sensible cases.

It doesn't look like it currently is, no.  I agree that changing this may
be a good idea.  I'd rather see ',' allowed in more places than to change
the semantics of '!'.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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