Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Tutorial question

[Charles Duffy]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 11:31, Pierce T.Wetter III wrote:
> "An archive name consists of an email address, followed by two dashes, 
> followed by a suffix."
> 
>   Is that a requirement (name is parsed) or a "best practice"?

It experimentally appears that, at minimum, an @ is required. That said,
this convention is a Good Thing: Using email addresses increases the
chances of archive names being globally unique, which is itself a
desirable property for a number of quite good reasons.