Re: ietf-nntp New draft available

Paul Overell <paulo@turnpike.com> Tue, 02 September 1997 17:00 UTC

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Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 17:58:09 +0100
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From: Paul Overell <paulo@turnpike.com>
Subject: Re: ietf-nntp New draft available
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In article <199709021606.LAA07450@academ.com>, Stan Barber
<sob@academ.com> writes


>> 
>> 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.


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')".


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