Re: "dev" or "development"? (Newsgroup Renaming)

[Ben Bucksch]

Gervase Markham wrote:

> The longer they are, the more you run into UA display problems. Yes, I
> know Mozilla handles this gracefully, but... ;-) I think making the names
> any longer (and they are already really quite long, because of the
> categorisation) would be a mistake

Why is
mozilla.development.apps.browser
long? Compare
netscape.public.mozilla.seamonkey
microsoft.public.developer.outlook.addins
de.comm.infosystems.www.browsers