* Dan Christensen:
|
| Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
| > 
| > Groups with all-numerical names are poison.  
| 
| 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