From: "Øyvind Møll" <oyvindmo@pvv.ntnu.no>
Subject: Re: groups with numeric names
Date: 08 Sep 1997 21:42:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dsliuwbd23t.fsf@apollo.orakel.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jdc@chow.mat.jhu.edu's message of "Mon, 08 Sep 1997 14:38:19 -0400"
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* Dan Christensen:
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| Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
| >
| > Groups with all-numerical names are poison.
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| Why? Should this be mentioned in the manual?
Because of the way many news servers store its files -- in a directory
hierarchy corresponding to the group hierarchy, and with the articles
saved as files with their (server specific) article number as
filename.
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.
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Øyvind Møll
oyvindmo@pvv.ntnu.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-08 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-08-29 5:04 Dan Christensen
1997-09-08 11:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-09-08 18:38 ` Dan Christensen
1997-09-08 19:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-09-08 19:42 ` Øyvind Møll [this message]
1997-09-08 20:45 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-09-08 22:46 ` Øyvind Møll
1997-09-09 12:56 ` Russ Allbery
1997-09-09 13:37 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1997-09-09 14:59 ` Russ Allbery
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