From: Jonathan Grobe (grobe@worf.netins.net)
Date: Thu Sep 30 1999 - 13:38:44 CDT
I agree with the present draft about capital letters.
Could you explain why other punctuation characters are going
to cause problems but not the thousands of UTF-8 characters which
are going to be added?
-- Jonathan Grobe Jonathan Grobe Books. Used & out-of-print books: Search or browse subject catalogs: <http://www.netins.net/showcase/grobe> For millions of used/out-of-print books try <http://www.abebooks.com> <http://www.bibliocity.com> <http://www.bibliofind.com>On 30 Sep 1999, greg andruk wrote:
> 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. >