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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Why is that?  I mean, why can't Gnus handle it?  Elisp strings and
> symbols are very clean -- as far as Emacs is concerned, you can well
> have NUL characters in them, let alone spaces.

Gnus uses some constructs from NNTP when talking to backends, and it
uses SPC as a separator.

> If Gnus refuses to handle spaces in groups because they are forbidden
> on Usenet, maybe Gnus should be fixed to be more lenient for other
> backends?

Yes.