ISSUE: Length and final dots of newsgroups descriptions.

[Julien ÉLIE <julien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I wonder whether final dots should not be added to descriptions.

     For your newsgroups file:
     example.admin.info      About the example.* groups (Moderated)

-> About the example.* groups. (Moderated)


     example.moderated         A moderated newsgroup (Moderated)
     example.test              An unmoderated test group

-> with final dots.

Maybe it should also be specified that the length of such descriptions
SHOULD NOT be too long:  a reasonable length not to exceed is 56 characters.


Source:
   ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/FORMAT

group.name<tabs>description.[ (Moderated)]

There should be one or more hard tabs (assume 8 column tabstops) to
get to a description; if the group.name is more than 24 characters,
use just one tab.  The description should start with a capital and end
in a period and not be more than 56 characters (80 - 24) long.  If the
group is moderated, it should have " (Moderated)" following the
period, not counted as part of the length of the description.  The
goal is to keep the total line under 80 columns, so if the group name
is 25 characters long you'd have eight less description characters to
work with.

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Julien ÉLIE

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