ietf-nntp HDR vs. PAT

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Jan 8 23:15:24 PST 2001


Stan O Barber <sob at verio.net> writes:

> It was decided to remove PAT.

Okay, cool.  (I should drop that command from INN then, before too many
people start using it and expecting it to act like XPAT.)

> It was decided to consider adding HDR if it not create the same type of
> problem with wildmat that PAT created. Personally, I am concerned that
> adding HDR will just recreate the same problem that PAT does with
> respect to wildmat's usage on items that are not newsgroup names.

I don't see how this would be a problem, since HDR doesn't take a wildmat.
Am I missing something?

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



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