Aucbarpa.484 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:glickman Fri Dec 4 15:31:15 1981 Re: heirarchical newsgroups, a warning During the design of version B, I made and then un-made the '.' <-> '/' change. This was to preseve compatiblity with mhnews, part of RAND's MH system. However, compatibility with MH has yet to be used and the change might be worth putting back in. Once MH compatibility is abandoned, there are a few data-base changes that can be made and would make things faster. Matt ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.