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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: comp.sys.sun.386i
Message-ID: <1955@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 26 Dec 89 19:40:54 GMT
References: <3467@husc6.harvard.edu> <3474@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

In article <3474@husc6.harvard.edu> cherry@mgh-coffee.uucp (Mike Cherry) writes:
| I have just learned that the first character of newsgroup name can not be
| a number. 

  Someone has just lied to you. There is no such restriction. Newsgroups
are not FORTRAN variable names. There are many such groups already. The
name proposed is perfectly fine and descriptive, let's not let folklore
interfere with facts.

  From my active file:

comp.bugs.2bsd 00030 00030 y
comp.bugs.4bsd 00101 00101 y
comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes 00000 00000 m
comp.sys.atari.8bit 00113 00113 y
comp.sys.nsc.32k 00014 00014 y

-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon