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From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp,net.news.group
Subject: Re: subgroup for net.games.frp
Message-ID: <109@hou3c.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 13-Nov-83 20:45:05 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 13 20:45:05 1983
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Not quite true.  If two newsgroup names share a common 13 initial characters
but differ in the 14th, then they will share the same dot file.  This will
cause holes to appear in the article numbers for both groups, but netnews
will still work.  So the limit is still that newsgroup names must be unique
to within the first 14 characters.  (If not, then they will share the same
directory, which *will* cause real problems.)
				Kenneth Almquist