newsgroup name parsing..
Matus "fantomas" Uhlar
uhlar at fantomas.sk
Tue Mar 13 12:58:36 UTC 2001
-> [Fabien Tassin]
-> > -> Are the following newsgroup names acceptable ?
-> > -> Control: newgroup -.mongrelmind-shiteating-dog
->
-> Some checks (derived from C News) were added a few years ago to
-> newgroup.pl that would catch this, but they are commented out
-> (originally with documentation advising that sites review and
-> uncomment as desired). The INN docs don't seem to mention this so the
-> defaults should definitely be more strict.
->
-> [Matus "fantomas" Uhlar]
-> > acceptable names should only contain a-z, 0-9, _, -
->
-> The usefor naming rules are much more elaborate than that. Unicode
-> chars are included, with some bizarre restrictions. Somebody should
-> really try to implement that stuff before it becomes an RFC.
any docs about that?
we probably should write RFC and try to implement it into inn probably ;)
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