ietf-nntp new draft of base document available

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Sat Jul 22 13:25:56 PDT 2000


Howard Swinehart <howard at redrose.net> writes:
> From: "Russ Allbery" <rra at stanford.edu>

>> All newsgroups carried by the server except those whose name includes
>> ".binaries.".

> Wait a second.  INN 2.2.2 returns an empty list.  This is consistent
> with the algorithm I posted that you said was correct.  If a newsgroup
> is neither explicitly included nor explicitly excluded, the default
> behavior of PERMmatch is to return FALSE.

Whoops, you're entirely right.  A pattern consisting entirely of !
patterns can never match anything.  I could have sworn that INN did the
implicit "*," thing, but looking at it it doesn't.

Thanks for the catch; I'll change my implementation and the upcoming
documentation.

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



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