ietf-nntp new draft of base document available

[Russ Allbery]

Howard Swinehart <howard at redrose.net> writes:

> Here's how each newsgroup is compared:

>  set the status to false

>  Repeat the following for each pattern:
>   if it's preceeded by '!' and it matches, set the status to false
>   if it's not preceeded by '!' and it matches, set the status to true

> When you reach the end of the list of patterns, the final status tells
> you whether to include or exclude the newsgroup.

> So if I have this stored in my noodle correctly, non-matches have no
> effect and matches to the right override matches to the left.

Correct.

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