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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: New Group Needed (Really news software)
Message-ID: <1842@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 09:47:35 EST
Article-I.D.: teddy.1842
Posted: Thu Dec 19 09:47:35 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Dec-85 04:39:56 EST
References: <272@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> <128@jc3b21.UUCP>
Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
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In article <128@jc3b21.UUCP> jra@jc3b21.UUCP (Jay R. Ashworth) writes:
>Did I miss something, or isn't the 14 char. limit *per piece* of the
>name, since net.micro.cbm.amiga actually turns into /usr/spool/news/
>(or whatever)/net/micro/cbm/amiga.

This is true with any software based on B news (available now for about 4
years).

Unfortunately, the BRAIN-DAMAGED "notes" software stores all articles in a
newsgroup in a SINGLE FILE, not in a directory heirarchy!

Frankly, I am GLAD to see mod.computers.xxxx since this will encourage
notes users to FIX THEIR DAMN SOFTWARE!

As long as someone is going to fix this, lets also fix the 64K article size
limit for "notes" on PDP11's (and other 16 bit "int" machines)!