ietf-nntp Simplification of wildmat

[Lee Kindness]

Russ Allbery writes:
 > Well, if you have ',' and '!' available, alt.?*,!alt.x*.  But how
 > often do you actually use such a pattern?  (As mentioned here
 > before, Diablo doesn't even have set notation in its wildmat
 > implementation.)

Which is indicative of our situation... How often are wildmats
actually used 'out in the wild'? Don't most servers user OVER/XOVER
and then do local searches on the returned information?

Are wildmats really worth the hastle and delay?

Lee.