From: jdc@chow.mat.jhu.edu (Dan Christensen)
Subject: Re: groups with numeric names
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 14:38:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7202zirc4.fsf@chow.mat.jhu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "08 Sep 1997 13:07:38 +0200"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> jdc@math.jhu.edu (Dan Christensen) writes:
>
> > Is there some reason that a group named 110.615 or 12345 should
> > be visible even when it has no ticked or unread messages?
>
> Groups with all-numerical names are poison.
Why? Should this be mentioned in the manual?
Dan
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Dan Christensen
jdc@math.jhu.edu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-08 18:38 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 [this message]
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
1997-09-09 13:37 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1997-09-09 14:59 ` Russ Allbery
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