From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12006 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jdc@chow.mat.jhu.edu (Dan Christensen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: groups with numeric names Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 14:38:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151620 1323 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:07:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:07:00 +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 MAA28023 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 12:39:11 -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 OAA03015 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 14:34:40 -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 ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:38:18 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 13405 invoked by uid 504); 8 Sep 1997 18:38:16 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13402 invoked from network); 8 Sep 1997 18:38:16 -0000 Original-Received: from jhuml2.hcf.jhu.edu (128.220.2.87) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 8 Sep 1997 18:38:15 -0000 Original-Received: from chow.mat.jhu.edu by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V5.1-7 #18666) id <01INEJ9LMLLS99DHAR@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu> for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 14:37:55 EDT Original-Received: from chow.mat.jhu.edu by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V5.1-7 #18666) with ESMTP id <01INEJ7UCRXY8WWMSF@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu> for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 08 Sep 1997 14:36:39 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from jdc@localhost) by chow.mat.jhu.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA05117; Mon, 08 Sep 1997 14:38:19 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "08 Sep 1997 13:07:38 +0200" Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.63/Emacs 19.34 Original-Lines: 15 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12006 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12006 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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 -- Dan Christensen jdc@math.jhu.edu