From 29dbc0d3870b191f76c275bcb0bcf56b78452275 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ward Wouts <ward@wouts.nl>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:02:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] uitleg over patterns van sven

---
 trunk/ripnews/README | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/trunk/ripnews/README b/trunk/ripnews/README
index a8fd8d0..b1cae73 100644
--- a/trunk/ripnews/README
+++ b/trunk/ripnews/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $Dwarf: README,v 1.17 2005/02/05 11:58:56 ward Exp $
+# $Dwarf: README,v 1.18 2005/02/05 12:00:39 ward Exp $
 # $Source$
 
 Ripnews is a bulk downloader for usenet. It's quite flexible in terms of
@@ -151,6 +151,12 @@ group multiple blocks into one by enclosing them with ()'s. So while
 sensitive 'OPT_I=(?i)(foo|bar)' will match both 'foo' and 'bar' case
 insensitivly.
 
+Caveat: if for some reason you use a | at the end of a list of patterns
+(for instance: OPT_X=(?i)(foo|bar|) ) the pattern will also match an
+empty string.  This can have the result that you exclude everything if
+you use it with OPT_X, or include everything with OPT_I. You have been
+warned.
+
 Other features:
 ===============