Matthew Winn wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:09:29 +0200, Tony Mechelynck > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> What do you mean, they aren't allowed? Not only do all the Vim Google >> Groups include an underscore in their names, when I click that link (in >> SeaMonkey on openSUSE Linux 11.0) I get a page saying "Found. Please >> click the following link to continue:" with a much longer link. >> > > RFC1912: > > Allowable characters in a label for a host name are only ASCII > letters, digits, and the `-' character. Labels may not be all > numbers, but may have a leading digit (e.g., 3com.com). Labels > must end and begin only with a letter or digit. See [RFC 1035] > and [RFC 1123].(Labels were initially restricted in [RFC 1035] to > start with a letter, and some older hosts still reportedly have > problems with the relaxation in [RFC 1123].) Note there are some > Internet hostnames which violate this rule (411.org, 1776.com). > The presence of underscores in a label is allowed in [RFC 1033], > except [RFC 1033] is informational only and was not defining > a standard. > > Let's consider the link under debate:
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/attach/10fa0944a8b643b4/vim-7.2-relativenumber-02.patch?part=2 The hostname is "groups.google.com". No underscores there. Regards, Chip Campbell --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
