From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12513 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: groups with numeric name parts Date: 03 Oct 1997 23:24:53 -0700 Sender: eagle@windlord.Stanford.EDU Message-ID: References: <199710032025.VAA00767@cenderis.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152035 4150 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:13:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:13:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA18587 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 00:13:30 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA19742 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 02:06:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 08:24:57 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 32216 invoked by uid 504); 4 Oct 1997 06:24:56 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 32213 invoked from network); 4 Oct 1997 06:24:56 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (36.21.0.44) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 4 Oct 1997 06:24:55 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10024 invoked by uid 500); 4 Oct 1997 06:24:53 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of 03 Oct 1997 21:27:29 -0400 Original-Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12513 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12513 Karl Kleinpaste 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)