Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!b-tech!zeeff From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Newsgroups: news.config Subject: Re: bu name change and smail patch Message-ID: <1989Nov15.173522.7002@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> Date: 15 Nov 89 17:35:22 GMT References: <3115@husc6.harvard.edu> <42617@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Organization: Branch Technology, Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 9 Re: dots in uucp host names. I think you are going to find other software that makes assumptions about addresses with dots needing a DNS lookup. You will also have problems with some versions of uucp that don't allow such long uucp names. -- Branch Technology