Re: ietf-nntp New draft available

[Stan Barber <[e-mail]>]

> >> 
> >> Section 12.5 page 29: I understood that the normal format for newsgroups is
> >> a set of wildmats:
> >> 
> >>     The newsgroups parameter is either a single wildmat or several wildmats
> >>     separated by commas.
> >
> >Good point. It will be fixed in a future release of the document.
> 
> Not according to RFC977 3.8.1.  It is a list of comma separated
> newsgroups but only two meta-characters are mentioned * and ! .  Wildmat
> has * but it doesn't have !, at least not according to your para 5.

Perhaps Rich could comment on this one.

> In a similar vein, para 12.4 NEWGROUPS your syntax is
> 
>         NEWGROUPS date time [GMT] [<wildmat>]
> 
> Whereas RFC977 has
> 
>         NEWGROUPS date time [GMT] [<distributions>]
> 
>         where distributions is a comma separated list of "the
>         distribution portion of a new newsgroup (e.g, 'net' in
>         'net.wombat')".
> 

Do people want both formats? 

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