From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: groups with numeric name parts
Date: 03 Oct 1997 23:24:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pvpmrqoa.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of 03 Oct 1997 21:27:29 -0400
Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:
> Theorem: Usenet systems send (have always sent; have always been able to
> send) newsgroup names containing leading digits, and in fact have always
> coped reasonably well with non-top-level name components consisting
> entirely of digits (viz. alt.2600).
> Proof: Left as an archival exercise to those readers who weren't
> actually around in the days of A News.
Counterproof: Create a group named "alt" on your INN news server. Type:
ctlinnd renumber alt
Take a look at what it thinks the high number of the group is. The last
time I tried this, it thought the high numbered article was 2600. Guess
why.
alt.2600 has worked fine because there is no widely-propagated and widely
used group called "alt" to get hit by it.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-04 6:24 UTC|newest]
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1997-10-03 20:25 Bruce Stephens
[not found] ` <x7g1qixzba.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-10-04 1:27 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1997-10-04 6:24 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
1997-10-06 0:04 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1997-10-04 4:42 ` Sudish Joseph
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