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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <259@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 20:29:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 26 20:29:16 1984
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> Many (all?) implementations of the notesfile software require all
> news group names to be no longer than 14 characters.
> Yes, the notes software could be modified.

  ...

> Even if it was, many notesfile sites would take a long time to convert,
> and many never will (look at how many news sites have not installed
> 2.10.2 (not to mention 2.10.1 ... 2.10 ... ) ).

Well, "net.religion.{jewish,christian}" already exist; there was some
debate about the 14-character limit when "net.religion.jewish" was created,
but the consensus was "tough luck".  There are other problems with the
original "notes", which have been cleared up, I believe, by Tim(?) Cook
of HP's version.

There are limits to the degree to which one should remain backward-compatible
with old versions of software; eventually, the old must give way to make
room for the new.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy