[ietf-nntp] Wildmat syntax

[Ken Murchison]

Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> Ken Murchison said:
> 
>>>I don't believe it will work with LIST ACTIVE for any version prior to INN
>>>2.4.0.
>>
>>OK.  I would imagine that there is little to no deployment of server 
>>software which currently supports this (INN or otherwise), correct?
> 
> 
> However, we agreed back when we were doing wildmats that it was worth being
> consistent throughout; it should require little or no server effort to do
> so.

Agreed.  My server does it, but I was asking about current deployment 
for the purposes of writing a client.  How is a client supposed to 
determine if it can do:

LIST ACTIVE wmat1,wmat2

or it must do:

LIST ACTIVE wmat1
LIST ACTIVE wmat2


I suppose if the server supports LIST EXTENSIONS, then its a good bet 
that the client can do the former, otherwise it needs to do the latter.

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