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From: rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Dividing comp.sys.att
Message-ID: <144800009@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 6 Jan 88 17:36:00 GMT
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Nf-From: occrsh.ATT.COM!rjd    Jan  6 11:36:00 1988


>>   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.
>
>-- 
>Richard Foulk		...{dual,vortex,ihnp4}!islenet!richard

 WRONG!
  Or, though it is true for "news" systems, it is not always true.  The system
I read netnews on uses "notes", which instead stores the newsgroups in archived
files under a directory by the name of the newsgroup, which is limited to 14
characters.  There are many notes sites on the net.  So.... the limitation
stands and is heeded before new group generation takes place.  So sorry.

Randy