Re: [cobalt-users] newsgroup server

["Edward M Gore Jr" <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> You can't have group names starting with numbers.

Well, there already are hundreds (if not thousands) of newsgroups that have
at least one element of their name beginning with a number, some are even
under ibm.* for instance.  It may be not supposed to be, but they do exist,
and apparently nothing in the nntp servers or clients prevents them from
working.

> With any luck this discussion will just die before anybody actually does
> anything.  IMHO the single most constructive thing that could happen would

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I basically agree.  Cobalt could do a better job of publicizing the correct
use of the lists,  and searching of their archives, but I think Cobalt is
also the entity who should setup the news server and establish the policies
for same, instead of doing nothing and allowing someone else to fill the
vacumn.  I think a news server with properly organized groups would be very
beneficial to Cobalt's customers like me who only run a few models from
their entire product line.

Edward
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