From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Mon Aug 10 1998 - 09:49:07 CDT
Brad Templeton said:
>> I realize that, but that doesn't answer my question. Any arrangement for
>> naming articles and controlling namespaces needs to allow for this sort of
>> situation.
>
> How so? news.answers was always a kludge. It gave you a single place
> to grep. The idea of putting in the archive-name header in the articles
> was better -- it is, in a vague sense, the basic concept of the named
> article.
And if I want to do something similar in a private hierarchy ? You're
saying we have to throw away an existing useful facility before this new
one is ever used ? Or else what happens to people whose newsreaders don't
understand article names ?
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