>christinA eijkhout wrote:
>

>>Already been drunk this morning?
>>2008-06-01 07:10:04 [22635] blackhelicopter.databasix.com>
>>bad component in alt.2600.docjeff (all numeric)

>

>>Besides, this is already 2nd time.

>
>Huh. As you raise the issue, alt.2600 (named for the magazine) is widely
>created, but other groups in that second-level hierarchy not so much.
>
>The alt.2600 groups have all been purged from Russ's sample newsgroups
>and active files. I wonder when that happened. When tale maintained the
>archive, one of his READMEs had a comment about the exceptional nature
>of the all-numeric 2600 component, otherwise not allowed.
>
>I forgot why Henry Spencer thought they would cause problems.