ietf-nntp Simplification of wildmat

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Lee Kindness said:
> 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?

Wildmats, yes, for all the reasons already discussed.

Single-character sets, perhaps not.

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