Afloyd.38 net.news.b utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!vax135!harpo!floyd!trb Sun Jan 17 19:28:59 1982 long newsgroup names Here's another reason to go to extended newsgroup names. In my .newsrc, I have entries for net.jokes.lime and net.jokes.limerick. I guess the full name goes in there, as long as it fits in 13 characters. Note I didn't say 14. the .files must start with a dot, so netnews better not think it is going to live with two groups with a difference only in character #14 (A netnews hacker would know better than I). This trunctated newsgroup stuff just gets more ridiculous the more I think about it. We did it to C variable names, let's do it to netnews newsgroup names. I think we could live with names of great length.as.long.as.no.single.part.of.the.name.is.greater.than.14 characters, using directory names for parts. Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.