ietf-nntp new draft of base document available

[Howard Swinehart]

From: "Russ Allbery" <rra at stanford.edu>
> ! is not at all ambiguous in existing implementations; the code that
> implements it produces a well-defined result given any input.  What
> about it do you think is ambiguous?

Section 5.2 of the current draft gives these examples of a negated
wildmat pattern:
     e)!bc*d -- matches any string that does not start with
        "bc" and end with "d" (without quotes)
     f)!\\x  -- matches any string that does not start with
        "\x" (without quotes)

This to me implies that a command should return everything that
doesn't match the pattern after the !.

Should a ! in a comma separated list have a different meaning?  That
is, should it exclude rather than include results like in the
examples?  If ! acts differently depending on the context, then it
would be helpful if this was documented.