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Re: Quick Question

From "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Quick Question
Date 2015-08-26 06:04 -0500
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"glen herrmannsfeldt" wrote:

> comp.lang.c-the-whole-c-and-nothing-but-c
>
> Is # legal in a newsgroup name?
>
> If I remember right, the PL/I group is named comp.lang.pl1 because
> comp.lang.pl/i isn't allowed.

Since addresses start out with http://  it is pretty obvious that a name 
containing '/' is going to lead to problems.  When making notes in file 
names and suchlike my choice for "punctuation belongs here" is '%'.  As near 
as I know it is bulletproof.

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  Re: Quick Question James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-08-25 23:00 -0400
    Re: Quick Question Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-26 07:19 +0100
      Re: Quick Question glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-08-26 07:55 +0000
        Re: Quick Question "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-26 06:04 -0500
          Re: Quick Question Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-26 12:58 +0100
            Re: Quick Question "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-26 05:20 -0700
          Re: Quick Question Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-26 13:17 +0100
            Re: Quick Question "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-26 08:15 -0500
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        Re: Quick Question Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-26 13:01 +0100
          Re: Quick Question David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-08-26 14:30 +0200
          Re: Quick Question Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> - 2015-08-26 09:14 -0400
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          Re: Quick Question James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-08-26 10:23 -0400
          Re: Quick Question Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-26 08:39 -0700
            Re: Quick Question Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2015-08-26 13:43 -0400
            Re: Quick Question Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-27 09:26 -0700
          Re: Quick Question Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2015-08-26 13:39 -0400
            Re: Quick Question Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-26 18:46 +0100
            Re: Quick Question James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-08-26 14:08 -0400
            Re: Quick Question Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-26 22:41 -0700
              Re: Quick Question Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-08-27 08:40 -0600
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