Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site infoswx Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!infoswx!bees From: bees@infoswx.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: mod.computers.* vs. notes Message-ID: <8700001@infoswx> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 09:59:00 EST Article-I.D.: infoswx.8700001 Posted: Wed Nov 6 09:59:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 08:15:06 EST References: <5000014@ndm20> Lines: 35 Nf-ID: #R:ndm20:5000014:infoswx:8700001:000:1578 Nf-From: infoswx.UUCP!bees Nov 6 08:59:00 1985 I agree with those who propose keeping groups unique within the first 14 characters, for now. Let's keep the net running smoothly. Let's pretend that most of the sites on this net were running 4.2 and notes. A group of us want to create newsgroups like: net.howmuchwoodcouldawoodchuckchuckifawoodchuckcouldchuckwood.games Well, this works just fine for most of us. 4.2 has no problem with that as a filename. Now all you netnews or 4.1 or V7 or System [35] sites say, "Wait a minute! We can't handle that!". Now how would you feel if we said, "You people have had over a year to fix your versions of notes/netnews/UNIX to be compatible with the rest of the net, so too bad. Suffer." Sure, you could kludge up a <4.2 system to use massive aliases or store the above as: net/howmuchwoodcou/ldawoodchuckch/uckifawoodchuc/kcouldchuckwoo/d/games but this wouldn't be real nice, would it. As a future plan, I suggest that notes be modified to store it's notesfiles in a hierarchy instead of all on one level. Instead of a directory ~notes/net.micro.amiga, notes could store networked notesfiles in ~notes/net/micro/amiga. This is exactly how netnews does it, and would allow better compatibility between the two. Of course, 4.2 still allows those directory names to be >14 characters, so there would have to be a built in constraint, at least with networked notesfiles. Then after everyone is up to snuff we can take the 14 character constraint off, and have names as long as we want. Ray Davis Teknekron Infoswitch, Richardson, TX infoswx!bees, (214)644-0570