[leafnode-list] Re: fetchnews doesn't fetch anything

[Robert Grimm]

Robert Grimm <lists at news.robgri.de> wrote:
> Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz at arcor.de> wrote:
>> It seems that especially this filter entry
>> newsgroups = .*
>> pattern = ^Subject:(?!.*bad weather)
>> action = kill


>> filters all messages out. Don't know why.

> ,----[ man pcre ]
>|   foo(?!bar)
>|
>| matches any occurrence of "foo" that is not  followed  by  "bar".
> `----

> So none of the messages had a subject including bad weather.

I was about to prepare a patch, but I was to slow. Already fixed in
the darcs repository. :)

Thank you Matthias.

Rob
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