ietf-nntp Wildmats

[Andrew Gierth]

>>>>> "Clive" == Clive D W Feather <clive at on-the-train.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.

 Clive>  What does it do about backslash quoting ? As in:
 Clive>      abc\,def

the snapshot I have handy, along with all previous versions of INN, my
own server code, and probably other servers as well will treat that as
two patterns, "abc\" and "def".

-- 
Andrew.