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- Conflicts with the netnews namespace can be dealt with by proper
- selection of the namespace. Sites have been defining their own local
- hierarchies for quite some time. For example, there is no netnews
- "archive" hierarchy in use, so it is relatively safe to name the
- archive for this list "archive.c-client".
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- I maintain that it is a mistake to expose implementation details
- through the interface unless the user is explicitly making
- implementation-specific requests. In particular, it is wrong to
- expose the storage format through the default "rubber-room" namespace.
- Why should the user have to know or care whether the mailing list
- archives are stored in netnews, berkeley, or tenex format?
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- _.John G. Myers Internet: jgm+@CMU.EDU
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