From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@algonet.se)
Date: Sun Nov 02 1997 - 11:33:28 CST
Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de) writes:
>However, I think it would be acceptable to say that
>
>newsgroup names MUST be unique if every component is shortened to 14
>octets (independent of legality in UTF-8)
That's fine with me, but if the name is in a script that requires
three octets per character in UTF-8 that means that it must be
unique in the first 5-6 characters. That may be a bit narrow.
>OTOH, I don't think there really is any technical justification left even
>for this rule. Limit total newsgroup name length to 255, and leave it at
>that, would be my preferred solution.
Good, we agre! But I though I should put my note in, in case someone
would adopt the idea for real.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se