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[Forrest J. Cavalier III]

> Forrest J. Cavalier III wrote:
> >>in newsgroup names, where none of the existing encodings can be
> >>used as-is.
> 
> > I disagree.  Why can the ._ encoding not be used as is?
> 
> (did you mean for this to go to inn-workers?)
> 
> It can't be used as the first component, but I'm not sure if anyone 
> really cares about that.
> 

Sorry.  That was meant for the cowboys in usefor.  

Thanks for telling me.  But it doesn't really matter that I sent
it to the wrong list.  Because unlike here, many people there do
not care to listen or consider the hardships they will try to cause 
others.

I'm not really too worried they will wreck Usenet though.  I expect
that if the IETF gives approval to their "works for me, must be your
problem" document, it will be largely ignored by implementors.