From: Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
Date: Fri Sep 24 1999 - 17:30:00 CDT
chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) wrote on 12.08.99 in <199908121806.TAA08287@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>:
> component-start = Un-lowercase / Un-digit
> Un-lowercase = <Unicode Letter, Lowercase> /
> <Unicode Letter, Other>
> Un-digit = <Unicode Number, Decimal Digit> /
> <Unicode Number, Other>
> component-other = "+" / "-" / "_"
I still object to this. There is no good reason for this standard to
restrict newsgroup names this way.
(Note that it's quite a different thing for hierarchy administrations to
decide on restrictions like these.)
MfG Kai