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From: loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: legal group names (was Re: Results of news.software.c newsgroup poll)
Message-ID: <2341@xenna.Xylogics.COM>
Date: 31 May 89 17:14:23 GMT
References: <428@qtc.UUCP> <58@herron.uucp>
Reply-To: loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso)
Organization: Xylogics, Inc., Burlington MA
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In article <58@herron.uucp> jbrown@jato.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
> In article <428@qtc.UUCP>, battan@qtc.UUCP (Jim Battan) writes:
> (Actually, one of the people who responded to him wrote...)
> > >(or just .bc, or .b-n-c, or .b+c if all known operating systems will
> >                              ^^^^   
> > I know at least one o.s. that will _not_ accept this.  Please do not
> > use this as a name.
> 
> MS-DOS will hiccup on this and several other names.
> ....
> I haven't decided how to handle comp.lang.c++ yet, but I'm assuming that
> I'll have to handle it somehow.  I think it's unlikely that I'll be able
> to talk people into significantly restricting the punctuation allowed.

Newsgroup names shouldn't be bound in any way to the filename
restrictions of various operating systems.  Just because some other
"news" implementations uses such a scheme, doesn't mean that *all*
news implementations need to do that, especially those news
implementations on some so-called "operating systems" like that
"M"-word above.

Use a file of newsgroup-to-filename mappings that's used to map
from a newsgroup name to a useable filename for the host operating
system.

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John Robert LoVerso			Xylogics, Inc.  617/272-8140
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