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From: stein@fortune.UUCP (Mark Stein)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.religion,net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT! net.religion.christian --> net.religion.xian
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Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 17:53:47 EST
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> I have decided to change the name of net.religion.christian to
> net.religion.xian.  A "newgroup" message has been sent.
> ...
> My reason for changing it is not because the name is too long.
> However, as long as there are numerous NOTES users, the impact
> of the 14-char limit must be considered for uniqueness and for this
> unfortunate ".ctl" confusion.

It sure would have been nice to throw this open for discussion.  If you
had, you would have found out that notesfiles has this nice feature which
allows arbitrary newsgroup names ("net.religion.christian") to be mapped to
some arbitrary notesfile name (say "net.christian").  This can be done in
the notesfile "newsgroups" file on the affected machines and would have the
following syntax:

	notesfile:newsgroup
	net.christian:net.religion.christian

B news newsgroup names were extended to get around the 14 character
limitation.  Why should a notesfile limitation dictate a name change,
especially when notesfiles provides a solution to its own problem?

			Mark Stein
			Fortune Systems
			{ihnp4,nsc,hpda,amdcad,sri-unix}!fortune!stein