K 10
svn:author
V 7
coneill
K 8
svn:date
V 27
1997-11-03T21:48:17.000000Z
K 7
svn:log
V 1089
Fixed a problem with wildmat patterns in hosts.nntp that was conflicting
with @ wildmats in newsfeeds.  Russ Allbery pointed out the problem:

Excerpted from "Administering a Sound Usenet II Site":

  Other Issues

    There is a bug or misfeature in the way that INN handles ! entries in
    hosts.nntp that causes it to not reject crossposts between net.* and
    non-net.* groups.  If someone crossposts an article between alt.foo
    and net.foo, that article will be accepted by your server even if the
    hosts.nntp entry for the peer you're receiving it from has !net.*, and
    furthermore it will be propagated to all of your alt.* peers even if
    you have @net.* in their newsfeed entries.  This is because !net.*
    just tells INN to ignore net.* groups for the purposes of determining
    if you can accept an article (so you accept the article as a post to
    an alt.* group), and furthermore then masks the existence of the net.*
    groups in the Newsgroups header to all of the rest of INN (so @net.*
    never catches and you propagate the article as an alt.* post).

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