From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12016 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: groups with numeric names Date: 09 Sep 1997 05:56:57 -0700 Sender: eagle@windlord.Stanford.EDU Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151629 1439 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:07:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:07:09 +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 HAA06721 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 07:07:57 -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 JAA07066 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:03:21 -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 ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:57:24 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 19125 invoked by uid 504); 9 Sep 1997 12:57:05 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19122 invoked from network); 9 Sep 1997 12:57:05 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (36.21.0.44) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 9 Sep 1997 12:57:05 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8915 invoked by uid 500); 9 Sep 1997 12:56:58 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of 08 Sep 1997 22:45:59 +0200 Original-Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12016 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12016 Hrvoje Niksic writes: > "Øyvind Møll" 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)