From: Sudish Joseph <sj@eng.mindspring.net>
Subject: Re: groups with numeric name parts
Date: 04 Oct 1997 00:42:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yviag1qi3zr0.fsf@atreides.eng.mindspring.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "03 Oct 1997 18:21:45 -0400"
Stainless Steel Rat writes:
> should not be used for other things. It does not explicitly state that
> numerics cannot be used for groups because the people who wrote the draft
> figured those implementing it would have a clue and not do something
> rock-stupid.
Or because they were far-sighted enough to realize that a protocol
should not be specified in terms of the limitations of the on-disk
file layout of one particular implementation?
Anyways, in this particular case, even INN has no problem with
3dfx.*.
-Sudish
prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-04 4:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-03 20:25 Bruce Stephens
[not found] ` <x7g1qixzba.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-10-04 1:27 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1997-10-04 6:24 ` Russ Allbery
1997-10-06 0:04 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1997-10-04 4:42 ` Sudish Joseph [this message]
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