ietf-nntp Simplification of wildmat

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Russ Allbery said:
>> How do you unfold "alt.[^x]*" into something not-too-long ?
> 
> Well, if you have ',' and '!' available, alt.?*,!alt.x*.

True. Perhaps "alt.[^a-z0-9]*" might have been a better example.

> 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.)

I don't tend to do such things anyway - preferring an off-line newsreader -
so I'm a bad person to ask.

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