Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!purdue!spaf From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Changes to Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Message-ID: <7427@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 22 Jul 89 04:14:48 GMT Expires: 20 Oct 89 04:14:47 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Lines: 59 Supersedes: <6760@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago. It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents. *** /tmp/fo16223 Fri Jul 21 23:12:55 1989 --- /tmp/fo26223 Fri Jul 21 23:12:56 1989 *************** *** 5,7 Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz) ! [Most recent change: 14 May 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] --- 5,7 ----- Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz) ! [Most recent change: 21 Jul 1989 by karl@cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)] *************** *** 138,145 children should be restricted to talk.religion.misc and kept out ! of misc.kids, and similarly Zionism discussions should be kept to ! talk.politics.mideast and not in soc.culture.jewish. USENET ! newsgroups are named for mostly historical reasons, and are not ! intended to be fully general discussion groups for everything ! about the named topic. Please accept this and post articles in ! their appropriate forums. --- 138,146 ----- children should be restricted to talk.religion.misc and kept out ! of misc.kids. Similarly, rape discussions should be kept to ! talk.rape and not in soc.singles, alt.sex and/or soc.women, and ! Zionism discussions should be kept to talk.politics.mideast and ! not in soc.culture.jewish. USENET newsgroups are named for ! mostly historical reasons, and are not intended to be fully ! general discussion groups for everything about the named topic. ! Please accept this and post articles in their appropriate forums. *************** *** 408 that it is not legal. --- 409,418 ----- that it is not legal. + + 33. What's an FQDN? + + A fully-qualified domain name. That is, a hostname containing full, + dotted qualification of its name up to the root of the Internet domain + naming system tree. Example: uiucuxc is the single-word hostname + (suitable for, e.g., UUCP transport purposes) of the machine whose + FQDN is uxc.cso.uiuc.edu. + -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf