From: greg andruk (gja@meowing.net)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 18:57:12 CDT
Russ Allbery wrote:
> checkgroups have the potential to get *really* long, if you start
> including named and extensible fields for each group. I don't have a good
> feel for how much of a problem that might be.
We could always put an index at the top and cut out a ton of redundancy.
A quickie prototype of the body (adjust for aesthetics) might look
like this:
From: Ruler of Usenet <fluffy@meow.org>
Official-Looking-Digsig-Junk-Goes-Here: yeah sure.
Control: grouplist
Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.flame,rec.hunting.kibo
Group-Collection: comp
Fields: 1: newsgroup 2: name 3: description
4: postflag 5: moderator
# with all fields
1: comp.lang.intercal
2: INTERCAL computer programming language
3: A compiler language with no pronounceable acronym
4: m
5: intercal@bungmunch.edu
# with no moderator
1: comp.sys.pdp10
2: DEC PDP-10 computer systems
3: PDP-6, PDP-10, Foonly, SC-30, TOAD and related mainframes
4: y
# no name, and so dead that everyone forgot what it was about
1: comp.sys.isis
4: y
[BTW, publishing the moderator address is just an example; tale briefly
emerged from exile and went ballistic when that was proposed seriously a
few years ago.]