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

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <> =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Julien_=C9LIE?= <julien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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

>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.

>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.

I think the group decided that "Tale's rules" for checkgroups lines were
two arcane to standardize, and the best that could be done was to document
them (for historic pouposes) in USEAGE.

As for the final '.', it is useless, and they have been systematically
excised from the uk.* hierarchy (and the relevant test in Tale's
pgpcontrol script modified accordingly).

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