From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12012 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Øyvind Møll" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: groups with numeric names Date: 09 Sep 1997 00:46:06 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151625 1389 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:07:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:07:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA31468 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 17:03:31 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA03837 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 18:58:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from apollo.orakel.ntnu.no (qmailr@apollo.orakel.ntnu.no [129.241.56.245]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 00:46:04 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 10544 invoked by uid 28778); 8 Sep 1997 22:46:06 -0000 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "08 Sep 1997 22:45:59 +0200" Original-Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.61/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12012 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12012 * Hrvoje Niksic: | | "Øyvind Møll" writes: | | > For instance, a newsgroup alt.end-of-the-world.2000 might be stored | > as /var/spool/nntp/alt/end-of-the-world/2000/ and thus collide | > horribly with article number 2000 in the alt.end-of-the-world | > newsgroup. | | But isn't the alt.2600 hierarchy a precedent for this being legal? I'd rather say it's a hierarchy that at some point must have annoyed programmers of news server software. :-) But okay; I guess Lars' point in another message is more to the point here -- I didn't recognize that the original poster specifically wondered about nnfolder groups. -- Øyvind Møll oyvindmo@pvv.ntnu.no