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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: <2376@xenna.Xylogics.COM>
Date: 1 Jun 89 21:16:45 GMT
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Reply-To: loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso)
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In article <14369@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
> ...Netnews ought in theory to be
> runnable on an OS that doesn't even support tree structured directories.

How soon they forget.  Back in those long ago, lost ages (the so-called
golden era of news), when `A' news was the one and only, newsgroups
were all directories at the top level (i.e., no tree structure).

John