ietf-nntp Wildmats

[Russell Vincent]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 10:14:48AM -0600, Tim Roberts wrote:
> Example
> "a*,!*b,c*" and "a*,c*,!*b" would both mean "any string beginning with
> either a or c and does not end with b" versus the very confusing "righmost"
> example given...

My understanding of wildmat applied to the the above example is that
the first means "any string starting with 'a' and not ending in 'b'
or any string starting with 'c'". i.e: The string starting with 'c'
can end in 'b'. The second example is as you state it.

 -Russell