[ietf-nntp] Wildmat syntax

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Jan 20 21:04:34 PST 2004


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 should definitely work with NEWNEWS on INN 2.3.4.  I just looked at the
source code to make sure.

I don't believe it will work with LIST ACTIVE for any version prior to INN
2.4.0.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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