[leafnode-list] Re: Pattern for only_groups_pcre (Leafnode 1).

[Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@xxxxxx>]

On Fr, 2007-09-21 at 21:02 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:
> >>  and
> >> that I was still getting some binary groups with non-English names, so
> >> I've arrived at this:
> >> 
> >>   only_groups_pcre = ^([\+\-\w]+)(\.[\-\w]+(?<!binaries|binary|mp3|warez|binares|binarios|binari))*$
> >> 
> >> Does that cover all the characters that can legitimately appear in
> >> newsgroup names?  Any other comments or suggestions?
> >
> > As far as I see the current usefor draft (for lack of better
> > documentation), section 3.1.4 in
> > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-12 I'd say that's
> > sufficient if the exclusion catches all your binary groups, the
> > newsgroup name can be ALPHA, DIGIT, +, - or _, with . obviously as
> > component separator.
> 
> Thanks.  Does the pattern look right overall?  (As far as I can tell,
> it works.)

Well, you can use pcregrep to match the pattern against your active file
and see what it filters out and what it lets pass. :-)

-- 
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@xxxxxx>

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