Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Newsgroup hierarchy and sys file confusion
Message-ID: <1990Mar3.232011.12096@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Mar1.225310.6802@wang.com> <1990Mar2.065300.20522@utstat.uucp> <106190@looking.on.ca>
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 90 23:20:11 GMT

In article <106190@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>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.) ...
>Ever thought that rec.sport.baseball matches rec.sport.baseboard?

No, because it doesn't.  The "all" is magic only when it's an entire name
component.  That's what the relevant documents imply, that's what B News
did I think, and that's certainly what C News does.
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