From: greg andruk (meowing@banet.net)
Date: Thu Sep 30 1999 - 11:45:56 CDT
In nnmh:usefor, Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
> Do you want to allow uppercase names in newsgroup-names?
Yes. They've worked okay in the few places they exist so far; I can
only remember one newsreader that decided to merge alt.nuke.the.usa
and alt.nuke.the.USA, and IIRC even that one was fixed since.
> Do you want to allow any other punctuation characters beyond the present
> "+" / "-" / "_" ?
No, that's too likely to break stuff. So many weird systems, so many
weird metachars.