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Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>         ctlinnd renumber alt
> Take a look at what it thinks the high number of the group is.

Thus, the exception which proves the rule.  The real, day-to-day issue
in question was the presence of digits, and especially leading digits,
in group name components, not all-digits components, which I was
merely noting in an also-ran sort of way.