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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Newsgroup hierarchy and sys file confusion
Message-ID: <106190@looking.on.ca>
Date: 3 Mar 90 07:45:51 GMT
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Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: discussion

It would have been nice to have regular expressions instead of the
odd patterns we now have.  (Curse whoever decided that 'all' would be the
pattern that matches anything.)

Of course, the large number of dots in group names would make regexps ugly.

Ever thought that rec.sport.baseball matches rec.sport.baseboard?
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Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473