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"Øyvind Møll" <oyvindmo@pvv.ntnu.no> 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?

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