Re: Extended newsgroup tags; another approach

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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 05:43:27 CDT


In <20021007113937.A10089@main.templetons.com> Brad Templeton <brad@templetons.com> writes:

>In fact, to implement the above, the only changes to the standard are:
> a) Making sure the control messages have the ability to include the
> new, 16 bit character group names.

I think that is already covered:

Control: newgroup news.groups; prettyname="New Newsgroup Proposals"

> b) Guideline for News to Mail

I am not clear what you want there.

>The rest can be done and tested and standardized later.

I agree that this is a matter for future experimentation possibly followed
by standardization. But I would not like it to be used as an excuse for
doing nothing about I18N group names now.

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