Some additional remarks on 2.3

Strengstes Jugendverbot barry at fluffy.gets.an.analprobe.dk
Tue May 30 07:28:49 UTC 2000


On Tue 2464 September 1993, Bettina Fink wrote:

> # Send non-cancel control messages through controlchan.
> #controlchan!\
> #       :!*,control,control.*,!control.cancel\
> #       :Tc,Wnsm:/news/bin/controlchan
> 
> Why not "!*,control*,!control.cancel"?
> "control*" should match "control", shouldn't it?

Yahbut, it could also potentially match selected high-volume text
newsfroups.
controldata.test
controldata.binaries
controlling-interests.usenet-cabal.secret-handshake
controlling-interests.usenet-cabal.global-killfile
controlling-interests.usenet-cabal.pedophiles.barry-bouwsma




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