ietf-nntp Wildmats

[Lee Kindness]

Russ Allbery writes:
 > But we're not specifying XPAT.  We're specifying PAT.  XPAT is a confusing
 > mess; my preference is to not duplicate that mess in PAT and instead do
 > something clean and clear, even if it isn't bug-compatible with
 > XPAT.

And that is exactly why we should leave it out of the new spec and
document it later as an extension.

The new spec is for 'current practise'...