Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Suggestions for slight topic re-organization Message-ID: <1012@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 17:54:25 EST Article-I.D.: cbosgd.1012 Posted: Fri Feb 24 17:54:25 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 07:57:29 EST References: <696@nsc.UUCP> <2613@alice.UUCP> <326@hou3c.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 10 Renaming is even harder than that. Suppose that a rename control message were added to 2.11. Now what do we do about (1) messages currently circulating around the net with the old name? (2) messages in the (new) spool dir containing the old name in the headers (which will be used for followups)? (3) people with the old name in their .newsrc file? (4) documentation that describes the old name? (5) people who "know" about the old name in their heads? Mark