From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12480 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Kleinpaste Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Strangeness with groups beginning with numbers? Date: 03 Oct 1997 11:40:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152008 4002 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:13:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:13:28 +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 KAA26211 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 10:11:43 -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 MAA01324 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 12:04:49 -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 ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:41:07 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 29260 invoked by uid 504); 3 Oct 1997 15:41:02 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29257 invoked from network); 3 Oct 1997 15:41:02 -0000 Original-Received: from pocari-sweat.jprc.com (207.86.147.217) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 3 Oct 1997 15:41:02 -0000 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by pocari-sweat.jprc.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04896; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 11:40:23 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "5(T0tZd{6}pd~YzBG8O/*EW,.]6]@`m^e;fv65W^Y&=d"M\1H}>T~4_.kcDD.O~y3k)a6h R;Nmi>9|>Nm${2IpM0^RcUEa\jcq?KOP)C&~x51l~zCHTulL^_T|u0I^kB'z@]{`2YjQu In-Reply-To: Bruce Stephens's message of "03 Oct 1997 13:51:10 +0100" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12480 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12480 Bruce Stephens writes: >> I read the 3dfx groups, and they seem to be treated differently from >> other groups. Stainless Steel Rat writes: > That might be because a "3dfx" heirarchy is illegal: it starts with a > numeric, and numerics are reserved for articles. Actually, digits, including leading digits, in newsgroup name components has a long history, and there are quite a few in typical usage now. From my active file's Basic 8 Hierarchies, via "egrep '\.[0-9]'": alt.0d alt.12hr alt.1d alt.23is.strange alt.2600 alt.2600hz alt.2d alt.3d alt.3d.misc alt.3d.rhino alt.3d.sirds alt.3d.studio alt.3djam-tv alt.atari.2600vcs alt.binaries.3d.lightwave alt.binaries.3d.truespace alt.binaries.multimedia.3-stooges alt.binaries.pictures.12hr alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.0-day alt.collecting.8-track-tapes alt.comedy.slapstick.3-stooges alt.comics.2000ad alt.comp.4d alt.consciousness.4th-way alt.culture.us.1960s alt.culture.us.1970s alt.culture.us.1980s alt.culture.us.1990s alt.flame.dr-tom.4d.vamps.acid alt.lang.4gl alt.magazine.2600hz alt.music.4-track alt.music.4ad alt.religion.christian.20-something alt.tv.3djam-tv alt.tv.3rd-rock alt.tv.7th-heaven comp.bugs.2bsd comp.bugs.4bsd comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes comp.graphics.packages.3dstudio comp.lang.basic.visual.3rdparty comp.os.msdos.4dos comp.sys.3b1 comp.sys.amstrad.8bit comp.sys.atari.8bit comp.sys.nsc.32k comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.announce comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit rec.autos.4x4 rec.games.video.3do rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1950s rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1960s rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1970s rec.photo.equipment.35mm And there's a fair pile from localized hierarchies. INN is perfectly happy to have both top-level hierarchy names as well as individual group names within hierarchies to have digits; I just experimented with creating a local group "4x4.general" and posting a test message to it -- no problem.