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

[Charles Lindsey]

In <877l9oddv1.fsf at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> 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.

On the contrary, a comma would currently be useless in a wildmat in a LIST
ACTIVE, since newsgroup-names cannot contain commas. So you lose nothing
by permitting the generalization in that command.

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