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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport,net.news.group
Subject: Re: How about net.sport.basketball??
Message-ID: <521@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Nov-83 10:32:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  3 10:32:27 1983
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Funny, I don't have net.sport.basketball here and I don't recall it
ever being created.

In general, net.sport.basketball is a good idea.  The problem is that
net.sport.basketball and net.sport.baseball both have the same first
13 characters.  This means that the dot files for the two newsgroups
on 2.9 and earlier versions of news will have problems.  2.10 won't
have problems with this.  It isn't clear how serious the problems
are, but I suspect there will be holes in the article numbers (since
net.sport.baseball and basketball will take local article numbers
from the same space).  This does not seem serious.  However, I don't
know if other problems would result too.

We could try it and see how it works out, with the proviso that we
cancel it if it causes a lot of problems.

	Mark