Re: Newsgroup proposal: misc.anonymous

["Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>]

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On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, John Anonymous MacDonald wrote:

> This sounds like a good idea.  I would certainly vote for such a news
> group.  Should the name be misc.anonymous or misc.anonymous.messages?
> Are alt.anonymous and alt.anonymous.messages basically to different
> newsgroups for exactly the same purpose, or is there some difference
> between them.

This is what's listed in the newsgroups file:

alt.anonymous		alt!  Who goes there?
alt.anonymous.messages	An anonymous message pool newgroup, whatever that is.

Alt.anonymous is just another content-free, basically dead newsgroup.  Alt.
anonymous.messages is the group used for message pools.  Since the general
rule for naming newsgroups is to use dots only for designating a lower group
hierarchy.  misc.anonymous-messages is probably a better name, since there is
no misc.anonymous.* newsgroup hierarchy.

Mark
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