From: Usenet News Support (support@prodigy.net)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 11:20:11 CDT
On Mon, 19 May 2003, Bruce Lilly wrote:
> Claus Färber wrote:
> > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <Shmuel+gen@patriot.net> schrieb/wrote:
> > The correct word, of course, is "column". Not all graphemes have a width
> > of one column but the column width is what matters.
>
> If "column" is meant to relate to display issues, that's not necessarily
> correct, as display might use a proportional-spacing font, in which case
> "column" has no meaning.
Do you like 'symbol' better? Or 'glyph?'
> Are the restrictions (on newsgroup name component and overall newsgroup
> name length) in fact related to display issues, or to something else
> (header field line length, look-ahead for processing, server limitations,
> NNTP protocol limits, etc.)? There's no mention of any rationale in the
> Lindsey draft, nor is there any explanation of where the magic numbers
> 30 and 71 came from. Neither the numbers nor restrictions come from RFC
> 1036.
That is the question. Feel free to suggest an alternative to column.
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