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From: jeff@onion.rain.com (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,news.groups,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: PPP: Let's create comp.protocols.ppp
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.052511.22841@onion.rain.com>
Date: 21 Apr 91 05:25:11 GMT
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brian@telebit.com (Brian Lloyd) writes:
>
>I would name it comp.protocols.serial-internetworking.  It is rather
>long but it is more descriptive and it can encompass SLIP, PPP,
>routing issues, dial-up IP, etc.  I wouldn't want to give the
>appearance of being only for PPP.

Bleep.  Wrong answer. :-)

Newsgroup name components may not exceed 14 characters.  There are still a lot
of older versions of Unix out there that don't support any more than 14
character file/directory names.  (sigh)

The 'serial-internetworking' portion far exceeds this limit.

	-Jeff
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Jeff Beadles		jeff@onion.rain.com