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Re: ISSUE: Length and final dots of newsgroups descriptions.

To: "Usefor WG" <ietf-usefor@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ISSUE: Length and final dots of newsgroups descriptions.
From: Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:10:30 -0700
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Julien ÉLIE <julien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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

There was general consensus in the group a while back that sacrificing an
occasionally valuable character to fairly pointless punctuation wasn't a
good idea (but also that it wasn't something that should be standardized,
so I think that language moved to USEAGE, if it's in any of our drafts).

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Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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