Re: Added new newsgroups to our hierarchie

Hi Adam,

You didn't do any of those things. The "madrid" component suggests
regional, but regional newsgroups shouldn't be named into an
international hierarchy like alt.*. The 2600 component suggests hacking.

About the 2600 component, I would also add that all-digit components should be avoided as, depending on the storage method used by a news server or client, they conflict with a possible article number 2600 in a parent newsgroup.
With alt.2600.madrid, it should not matter much as "alt" does not exist as a newsgroup itself, but in case ReK2 sends a newgroup control article in alt.es.*, it would matter.
alt.es is listed in the active list of ftp.isc.org and may have an article number 2600 stored in the /articles/alt/es/2600 file.  In this configuration, alt.es.2600.madrid cannot be added because the path /articles/alt/es/2600/madrid cannot be created.
I would therefore suggest the use of another name.
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Julien ÉLIE
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