From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!cbosg!cbosgd!mark
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: Re: fixint 14 character newsgroup name limit
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2341
Posted: Tue Jun  8 01:29:01 1982
Received: Tue Jun  8 04:17:28 1982
References: sdcsvax.2053

Eventually, dots will be turned into slashes internally for purposes
of storing articles.  But there would be a major upheaval of the
network if all the newsgroup names were to suddenly change.  Also,
using / just because it's handy for UNIX is silly - USENET will eventually
expand to other operating systems.  This change is on the wishlist
for the virtual 3.0 version of B news.

	Mark