ietf-nntp Wildmats

[Russ Allbery]

Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:

> actually, it's not. INN-CURRENT contains a wildmat routine that includes
> support for ',','!' and '@', but it does not in fact make use of it in a
> way that conforms with the proposed text. In particular, commands like
> NEWNEWS that previously worked with a comma-delimited list still split
> the supplied pattern on ',' characters without regard for quoting.

This will have changed by the INN 2.4.0 release, which I'm hoping to get
out sometime this summer.

> It's partly NEWNEWS that concerns me. (INN still treats NEWNEWS as a
> second-class citizen, I don't.)

INN hasn't really treated NEWNEWS as a second-class citizen since 2.3.0.

> well, INN-CURRENT seems to have quietly changed the meaning of XPAT such
> that commas are now used for alternation; that means that there are now
> even more incompatible implementations than previously (at least four
> now).

XPAT needs work in INN-CURRENT.

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