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A further thought for the Snews wishlist: 

Addgroup.exe in Snews 1.30 still creates numeric names for new 
newsgroups, but will support any name; I tend to rename my groups 
manually, by renaming the ~\spool\news\newsbase files and then hacking 
~\spool\news\active.  (e.g. this newsgroup is filed as D-I-S-PC)

How about an alternative addgroup that prompted for a meaningful name?  
The problem I see is that a lot of users wouldn't want to bother with 
this, and are happy with the default names.  AIUI, addgroup is called 
directly by DIS.EXE, so it would not be possible to supply an extra 
flag for it in normal usage; perhaps it could use an environment 
variable, or check for some file (addgroup.cfg?), or maybe there could 
be an alternative addgroup for those who want this facility?

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