From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 10:22:37 CDT
Is there really a need for non-ASCII in the newsgroup names? This is not
an English centric question, just a recogntion that many, perhaps most,
admins don't have the tools to handle those groups well.
After reading the discussions and thinking about the problems vs.
benefits, I really wonder if we are leading usenet forward or
fragmenting it. Back in the days of 14 character name filesystems, a
group with a longer name sometimes fared poorly. Given that case is
*not* significant in many places, I wonder how much software does that
with group names.
I admit to being a minimalist on standards, I don't like changes unless
they solve actual problems, and I don't see us being out of group
namespace and needing uppercase or extended character sets. So any
extension in this area is for political correctness, perhaps.
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me