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

[Adam Funk <a24061@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2007-10-05, Matthias Andree wrote:

> 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. :-)

I've been using it for a while so what's in my active file *is* what
it passes.  ;-)  And I think it's right.

Thanks.

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