ietf-nntp References to PAT still present

Stan Barber sob at academ.com
Thu Nov 29 22:07:10 PST 2001


I saw the one in Section 9.5.3 just after I got the document to ietf-drafts.

This will be fixed in 15.

At 11:08 AM 11/29/2001, Russell Vincent wrote:
>Another possible change with the HDR command needed:
>
>Section 13 (BNF Syntax) still has reference to the PAT command and
>the "hdr-command" line should be changed to replace PAT with HDR.
>
>Also, section 9.5.3 states:
>
>    This extension provides one new command, HDR. The label for
>    this extension is PAT.
>
>Should the label for the extension should be HDR and not PAT?
>If so, the following should also be updated:
>
>   8.1.1.1 (LIST EXTENSIONS Examples) should change from PAT to HDR.
>
>I gather the history of this was that the PAT command has been
>replaced with the HDR command to avoid complications being introduced
>with wildmats used for pattern matching in PAT. PAT has been
>relegated to an extension documented separately if deemed necessary.
>HDR does not use wildmats and is probably useful to keep.
>
>  -Russell




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