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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: While we're talking about global changes in newsgroups...
Message-ID: <3665@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 89 17:39:58 GMT
References: <35660@apple.Apple.COM> <178@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <35668@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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>>Here you've lost me, Chuq.  What makes the top level different from
>>any other level?  Why *not* use comp instead of comp.misc?

In article <35668@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>Partly technological -- you don't want to clutter the root of your top-level
>domain with lots and lots of inodes. It'd be inefficient.

There's another reason.  inews/rnews treats groups with no dots in the name
as purely local groups; they won't be forwarded to other machines, and rnews
strips their names from the Newsgroups: line.
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