wildmats (was: Re: ietf-nntp Draft summary of IETF 48 meeting)

[Russ Allbery]

Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Nonsense. Commands like LIST ACTIVE currently take single wildmat
> patterns, and existing implementations will treat commas in those
> wildmats literally; therefore this is an incompatible change.

So's UTF-8.  It's an incompatible change that might affect a small handful
of people, just like UTF-8, since comma isn't a valid character for
newsgroup names and are uncommon in the headers people do pattern matching
against.

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