[ietf-nntp] Wildmat syntax

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Wed Jan 21 15:58:19 PST 2004


Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> 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.

Ugh, that's a good point.

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



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