On Sun, 15 May 2005 20:45:13 -0000,
(Robert Bonomi) wrote:

For 'historical' reasons, a _newsgroup_ named 'foo.bar', and a newsgroup
_hierarchy_ named 'foo.bar' (i.e. the parent of groups 'foo.bar.baz',
'foo.bar.quux', etc.) was not allowed.

Uh, you do realize there are a *bunch* of exceptions to that "rule"?

Lee