Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Newsgroup hierarchy and sys file confusion
Message-ID: <1990Mar2.170726.946@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Mar1.225310.6802@wang.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 17:07:26 GMT

In article <1990Mar1.225310.6802@wang.com> fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
>Apparently C-news handles newsgroup name matching in sys files differently
>than B-news did, and I'm not sure how to get the old behavior back...

The problem is that there has never been a coherent and precise spec for
newsgroup matching.  The definition we used for C News was the best we
could come up with.

>... feed a parent group and one of its subgroups, without
>feeding any of the other subgroups of the parent.

That's one we hadn't thought of.  Sigh.  We'll have to go back and take
a look to see if we can improve this.
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