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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: What to do with unknown newsgroups.
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Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 15:01:15 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 18 15:01:15 1987
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The C news implementors (Geoff and I) favor retaining unknown groups, due
to a fundamental belief that the right thing to do with headers is to leave
them alone.  (The need to compromise this for Path and Xrefs is annoying.)
The problem of name clashes between regional groups is indeed troublesome,
but just stripping out unknown groups is not a good solution.
-- 
"We must choose: the stars or	Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
the dust.  Which shall it be?"	{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry