From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 30 1999 - 04:51:54 CDT
In <87vh8tis6g.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Charles> Sure there is no technical justification, but current
> Charles> practice is not to be ignored.
>It is when it exists only for hysterical raisins.
OK, we have a plain disagreement here. When this was discussed nearly two
years ago, the agreement was to follow current practice. We can of course
change that, so I solicit further opinions from the list.
Do you want to allow uppercase names in newsgroup-names?
Do you want to allow any other punctuation characters beyond the present
"+" / "-" / "_" ?
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