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From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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Subject: Re: DISCUSSION
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Date: 13 Nov 89 18:14:42 GMT
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In article <1989Nov12.201312.19380@acd4.UUCP>,
 dwj@acd4.UUCP ( Dan Johnson ) writes:
> Maybe we should consider *changing* the name of rec.games.frp to
> rec.games.role-playing or rec.games.rpg.

Goodness, is it that time of year already?  Seems like we just had the last go
around about this yesterday. :-) Seriously, this has been discussed before and
the idea discarded, for several good reasons.  The main reason I see is that
there just isn't any mechanism for renaming a group.  The best you can do is
delete the old group and create a new one.  Now, many news admins on the net
let any newgroup messages work automatically, but ignore rmgroup messages. In
fact, I think that is the default procedure for most news software.  If we
tried to rmgroup/newgroup rec.games.frp to rec.games.rpg we would end up with
two groups at many sites.  While renaming is a good idea (IMHO) it just isn't
technically feasable.
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