ietf-nntp wildmat routines and text

[David Riley]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 01:05:38PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> David Riley <David.Riley at software.com> writes:
> 
> > Are you suggesting that @ be added to the standard as part of the
> > wildmat specification?
> 
> Nope; that part is needed for INN for the wildmats in its configuration
> files, but I don't immediately see a need for it to be exposed over
> protocol.  The difference between @ and ! only comes in when you're making
> a whole series of matches... it might arguably be useful for NEWNEWS, but
> beyond that it would just be confusing.

I agree.  The @ symbol is only useful in matching against a list of
expressions against a list of groups/strings.

-- 
David Riley
David.Riley at software.com - Software.com, Inc. (Vancouver, B.C.)