From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Dec 19 2002 - 13:32:32 CST
In <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212181352540.2638-100000@localhost.localdomain> John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:
>This is nonsense. You already require a special test for the string
>'poster' outside any tests for newsgroup names.
Yes, but a simple implementation is just to regard "poster" as a newsgroup
name, parsed by the normal machinery, and then do something special when
it turns up.
>Can we please stop this "it's too hard" nonsense now? Can we please have
>some reason for this artificial limitation?
Can you pleae find someone else who supports your position, and then we
might get somewhere.
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