XFOR: MCIS Allows Additional ASCII Characters in Newsgroup Names

SUMMARY

Microsoft Commercial Internet System 2.0 NNTP server allows additional ASCII characters to be placed in a newsgroup name. These characters are: "=" , "@" , "+" , "-" , "_".

Although these characters are eligible to be in a newsgroup name, there may be compatibility problems with legacy NNTP servers. Some NNTP servers require that the first character of a newsgroup name exclude these special characters, which may cause problems during newsgroup replication.

NOTE: Microsoft Commercial Internet System 2.0 allows any of these characters to be placed as the first character of the newsgroup name.