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On Thursday, in article <817745608snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
     john@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" wrote:

JW> On Wednesday, in article <817661125snz@keris.demon.co.uk>
JW>      chris@keris.demon.co.uk "Chris Croughton" wrote:
JW> 
JW> CC> Some time ago someone (John Washington?) said that they had a version of
JW> CC> the SNEWS ADDGROUP program that generated names which bore some
JW> CC> resemblance to the newsgroup, rather than the usual time-based ones.
..

I forgot to mention, when posting that code, that I think there
is a relevant problem in the locking code used by Snews and
its utilities.  I believe (other opinions, pls) that 7 char
filenames cause problems.  See locking.c, function mlock().

If you agree there's a bug, and you don't fix and recompile all the code
that uses mlock(), I imagine you would wish to modify nicename.c so as
to avoid generating 7 char filenames, e.g. by adding a trailing '_'.

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John Washington