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Re: descriptions for newsgroups?
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Date: 
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 21:38:39 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
requirements -- the descriptions have to start on column 24 (or something) and
be less than 56 characters and end with a period (something like that) so there
isn't going to be an easy algorithm to convert the multi-sentence description
into a short description for most groups.  I probably need to set up a second
descriptions file by hand and have it use those.  Thanks for the reminder.

Hey no problem. I'm happy to bug you into doing things. :)

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  Re: descriptions for newsgroups?
 
(...) Good catch -- I haven't yet made the script that converts the big description into little descriptions... The 'newsgroups' file spec has some weird requirements -- the descriptions have to start on column 24 (or something) and be less than 56 (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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