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Subject: Re: groups with numeric name parts
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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