From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: groups with numeric names
Date: 09 Sep 1997 05:56:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sovezluu.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of 08 Sep 1997 22:45:59 +0200
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> "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?
No, because there isn't any group "alt" and alt.2600 would collide with
the 2600th article in "alt". Which isn't to say that it doesn't still
cause problems, but they're much less than they could be.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-09 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-08-29 5:04 Dan Christensen
1997-09-08 11:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-09-08 18:38 ` Dan Christensen
1997-09-08 19:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-09-08 19:42 ` Øyvind Møll
1997-09-08 20:45 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-09-08 22:46 ` Øyvind Møll
1997-09-09 12:56 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
1997-09-09 13:37 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1997-09-09 14:59 ` Russ Allbery
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