On Jul 06, 2012, at 02:36 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >It's not clear to me how the MUA would know that. Many MUAs (well, at >least one, and you know which one I'm talking about! Reindeer and >mooses and Gnus, oh my!) can handle multiple feeds simultaneously. >Suppose you have multiple archives (mirrors!) which happen to have the >same list archived? How does the MUA de-dupe lists (and/or merge >them, although I don't know if any MUAs can do that) if we don't have >a unique public name? > > > >Another issue with newsgroup names is that some lists *are* registered > > >in the news hierarchy, so provision for such aliases should be allowed. > > > > Maybe that's the reason for the prefix? > >Part of it, yes.
Should the prefix be configurable then? -Barry
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