Re: Extended newsgroup tags; another approach

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From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 11:56:42 CDT


Claus Färber said:
>> 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.

There are groups with identical names (other than the second and third
letters, of course) in the soc and sci hierarchies.

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