Re: Extended newsgroup tags; another approach

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From: Claus Färber (list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 11:09:00 CDT


Clive D.W. Feather <clive@demon.net> schrieb/wrote:
> You hope. What if the names differ only in non-ASCII characters?
> To get an idea of the problems here, I tried removing all the vowels
> from our active file. There are a lot of clashes; for example, "soc"
> and "sci" become indistinguishable.

I don't know a newsgroup called "soc" or "sci". They tend to have longer
names.

Please note that the same problem arises with UTF-8 when it's not
supported.

Claus

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