mark@cbosgd.UUCP (09/26/83)
No. The newsgroup name is net.news.config, NOT net.news.configuration. There has been no discussion of changing it and it was certainly not changed. The original name was not truncated for 14 character reasons. The old rule was that the name had to be unique in the first 13 characters, and obviously there have been no conflicts with net.news.conf* names. Had we wanted it to be called net.news.configuration, we would have named it that in the first place. It was called net.news.config because people (including myself) are too lazy to type out configuration. We are not the first - 4BSD comes with a configuration program called (surprise) "config". There's also the issue that some people probably can't SPELL configuration, and it could also be expanded as configure. Mark Horton
joe@fluke.UUCP (Joe Kelsey) (09/27/83)
I have seen absolutely NO discussion of "officially" changing the name of net.news.config to net.news.configuration! When did this happen? Must have been while I was asleep, and I missed all notices! The latest list of active newsgroups posted this month specifically lists "net.news.config"; it does NOT list "net.news.configURATION". /Joe