ietf-nntp Wildmats

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> But why not take '*' as the initial universe, you ask? Good question! 
> All I remember is that we disallowed that for some reason. Perhaps Clive
> will remember.

Existing practice.  Most current implementations seemed to assume an empty
initial universe.  Since it's an arbitrary decision, we went with current
practice.

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