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Re: do we need lugnet.org.castle-world?
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 03:29:52 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
Well, another idea would be just lugnet.castle.org, and split it when a 2nd
group comes along. As far as name stability, how hard is it to move all the
messages from one group to another (other than that it may break certain
references - though message URLs could be automatically translated)?

As far as I'm aware, it's impossible to move a body of existing NNTP messages
from one newsgroup to another group without completely destroying the normal
functioning of the original group.

--Todd



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  Re: do we need lugnet.org.castle-world?
 
(...) My thought was that if a while down the road, the name of Castle World was changed, and it became a problem with the newsgroup, it might not hurt to change the name of the newsgroup. Would it be possible to edit (automatically of course) all (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: do we need lugnet.org.castle-world?
 
(...) Well, another idea would be just lugnet.castle.org, and split it when a 2nd group comes along. As far as name stability, how hard is it to move all the messages from one group to another (other than that it may break certain references - (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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