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Re: rather than argue and bicker about who said what...

2003-01-17 19:40:53

Russ Allbery <rra(_at_)stanford(_dot_)edu> schrieb/wrote:
comes to Usenet feed patterns.  Right now, it's common to attempt to
exclude certain types of binaries with patterns like @*mp3* and @*dvd*; so
long as all newsgroup names are ASCII words, this works fairly well,

Building filters that way will also catch some innocent discussion  
group, e.g. a discussion group about CD-ROM and DVD drives.

If you filter alt.binaries.*mp3, you already avoid problems with IDNA  
names.

Claus
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