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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.config
Subject: Re: bu name change and smail patch
Message-ID: <14919@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 15 Nov 89 18:16:04 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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Also, while I could sympathize with a desperation patch to deal with
some old dinosaur of a pre-existing node with a dot in its name,
creating a NEW node in this day and age with a dot in the name is
LUDICROUS!  Use another delimiter, or be prepared to spend hour after
hour dealing with net problems.  Says here, life's too short...

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"NASA Announces New Deck Chair Arrangement For   \_/  Tom Neff
Space Station Titanic" -- press release 89-7654  \_/  tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET