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From: richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Dividing comp.sys.att
Message-ID: <3763@islenet.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 01:49:43 GMT
References: <167@mcmi.UUCP> <144800007@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk)
Organization: Islenet Inc.,  Honolulu
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>   I was one of those that was in support of the comp.sys.att.3b1 or pc
> or whatever, but this idea sounds better.  Lets go for comp.sys.att.3b,
> too bad probably none of them are going to work as the 14th character
> is the "3" (max of 14 characters in the name, right?).  How about
> comp.sys.att3b?

No.  There is no such 14 character limit on newsgroup names.  An article
in comp.sys.att is normally stored in a file named something like this:

	/usr/spool/news/comp/sys/att/123

So newsgroup names have the same restrictions as Unix filenames.

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Richard Foulk		...{dual,vortex,ihnp4}!islenet!richard
Honolulu, Hawaii