From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 08:19:18 CST
In <200202151621.g1FGLoE05791@jefferson.patriot.net> "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <Shmuel+gen@patriot.net> writes:
>In <GrE0GH.GJv@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>, on 02/11/2002
> at 09:17 PM, chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) said:
>>The third is in 5.5 and relates to whether all-digit
>>newsgroup-name-components are to be outlawed entirely, or merely
>>deprecated. We never did resolve this. My personal preference is to
>>disallow them altogether.
>My preference would be to disallow them for new groups but to
>grandfather in existing groups.
Sure, nobody is suggesting the few existing groups should be forced to
vanish overnight. But I don't think wording would require that.
I take that as one vote for the first (non-alternative) text in 5.5.
Anyone else want to play?
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