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From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
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Subject: Re: bu name change and smail patch
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Date: 18 Nov 89 18:49:19 GMT
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In article <14919@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>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...

I've spent very little time "dealing with net problems" in the 18
months of existence of cs.utexas.edu as a UUCP host.  Most of that time
involved handing out the smail2.5 patch.  And that was more than
recovered in the time I *used* to spend explaining to users why we
needed two different hostnames for the same machine depending on which
email transport layer was used.

Personally, I'm quite pleased with the results.

If any of our 74 UUCP peers have been greatly inconvenienced by our
dotted UUCP name, they were too polite to mention it to me.  (The
original author of the smail2.5 patch is one of our peers.  He, no
doubt, was a little frustrated 18 months ago.  No longer.)

cs.utexas.edu!fletcher