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.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>