[NNTP] wildmat-exact

[Charles Lindsey]

In draft26.pre-1.txt I find

     wildmat = wildmat-pattern *("," ["!"] wildmat-pattern)
     wildmat-pattern = 1*wildmat-item
       ; must not begin with "!" if not immediately preceded by "!"
     wildmat-item = wildmat-exact / wildmat-wild
     wildmat-exact = %x21-29 / %x2B / %x2D-3E / %x40-5A / %x5E-7E /
          UTF8-non-ascii ; exclude * , ? [ \ ]
     wildmat-wild = "*" / "?"
and
     newsgroup-name = 1*wildmat-exact

So it seems to me that a wildmat-exact (and hence a newsgroup-name) can
contain (and in particular start with) a '!'. That seems to me to make
wildmat ambiguous.

Thanks to Pete Forman for pointing this out to me, in connection with the
proposed news uri revision, to which I had copied the bug.

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