[ietf-nntp] Wildmat syntax

[Charles Lindsey]

In <400C7E2E.1030001 at oceana.com> Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

>Do any current servers support comma-separated wildmat patterns or is 
>this a new construct added by the draft? I wrote a small "fetchnews" 
>utility as part of Cyrus which sucks news in client-mode using either 
>NEWNEWS or keeping track of high water marks, and this syntax works with 
>neither NEWNEWS nor LIST ACTIVE on INN 2.3.4 (the current version of INN 
>shipping with Redhat 9).

It ought to work with NEWNEWS, because that currently expects a
comma-separated list of old-style wildmats.

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