ietf-nntp wildmat routines and text

Stan O. Barber sob at verio.net
Mon Jul 24 10:56:20 PDT 2000


David Riley wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 05:41:15PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I've finished a new wildmat implementation for INN that adds support for
> > comma and ! (and optionally @) as discussed in other messages here.  I've
> > not checked it into INN yet because I want to also add UTF-8 support
> > (which actually doesn't look to be that hard) and make sure it's fully
> > tested and get some more eyes looking at it, given how core of a routine
> > it is.  I probably will put it on the current development branch shortly.
> 
> Are you suggesting that @ be added to the standard as part of the wildmat
> specification?

>From previous comments, I don't believe Russ was suggesting that for this
version of the spec. It should be added as an extension to the definition of
wildmat in an extension specification if it was desired.



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