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From: cdrigney@uokvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: New Group Needed
Message-ID: <9300039@uokvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Dec-85 04:27:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 17 04:27:00 1985
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/* Written  1:49 pm  Dec 10, 1985 by ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu in uokvax.UUCP:net.news.group */
> Unix supports a fully hierarchical file system, and while an argument could
> be made for group names (net, mod, micro, computers, apple) to be unique
> within 14 characters (to support old 4.1 filesystems, for example), it is not
> practical from a user-interface point of view to arbitrarily limit name
> length or content, lest we have newsgroup names that are hard to figure out
> as Unix command names.

What's so hard to figure out about names?  I don't know about news,
but if you just say 'notes' Version 1.7 gives you a list of all the
notesfiles and a one line description of each.  I have utterly no
sympathy for someone who wants to post articles going to over 1000
sites but is unwilling to read a 3-page list to determine which
group it goes in.  And do you really think there's ANYONE out there
who wouldn't understand comp as short for computer?

		--Carl Rigney
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