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Re: #1314 Resolution - Newsgroups and reserved characters

Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> Fri, 25 August 2006 12:11 UTC

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From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
Subject: Re: #1314 Resolution - Newsgroups and reserved characters
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Charles Lindsey wrote:
 
> there was no specific extension in view. There were just
> three characters (+-_) that were syntactically harmless, but
> by well-established convention _never_ appeared at the start

Okay, maybe "'_' for I18N" is a product of my imagination, and
the future USEFORbis could find better uses for it.

> we might want some day for each newsgroup to be accompanied
> by a meta-group containing meta-information about the main
> group

For meta-data see also draft-dfncis-netnews-admin-sys-07.txt -
trapped in the RFC editor queue for four years.  

Frank

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