ietf-nntp Proposed wildmat text

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> Charles Lindsey said:

>> I though we had agreed that there could be a '!' on the first
>> wildmat-pattern, so one could write
>> 	NEWNEWS !alt.* ...
>> the understanding being that a wildmat starting with '!' was to be
>> interpreted as if it had been "*,!alt.*". That would accord with present
>> behaviour of NEWNEWS.

> This would be fairly easy to change, though it does break the "rightmost
> match" rule. I'll change it if/when I'm told that that's the WG consensus.

I thought we'd decided the other way, that the implicit * was too
irregular and it was easier and clearer to just make it explicit.  But I'm
behind a really slow link right now and can't check the archives easily.

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