[NNTP] LISTGROUP

[Charles Lindsey]

In <20050324084638.GC32089 at finch-staff-1.thus.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> writes:

>For the record, our current syntax defines a newsgroup name as being a
>wildmat item with no wildcards. That is, it is a string of any of the 88
>printable ASCII characters except * , ? [ \ and ].

Actually no. It is those ASCII characters you mention plus UTF8-non-ascii.

Usefor does not currently permit that UTF8-non-ascii as the moment, but it
might in its future I18N extension, and actually, this NNTP requirement
would rather constrain Usefor to either put newsgroup-names in UTF-8 or
else to encode them in ASCII somehow.

OTOH, as you say elsewhere in these threads, NNTP still says you
SHOULD/MUST accept octets outside of the UTF8-non-ascii range, so a
Chinese cooperating subnet might still get away with Big8, or whatever
their code is called.

That would indeed be a Bad Thing, but since when did that stop the Chinese
from doing what they wanted :-( .

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