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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Bogus .UUCP addresses under SCO
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.223201.22378@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 90 22:32:01 GMT
References: <1990Sep30.220547.7205@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> <95@mq.com>
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In <95@mq.com> alan@mq.com (Alan H. Mintz) writes:


>I don't know about _brain-damaged_. Not everyone has a registered
>domain address. Such sites are usually distinguished by the .UUCP suffix,
>which is known to be bogus. SCO provides a service to people without
>access to a developement system by shipping a compiled Bnews distribution.

>Documentation regarding the configuration used to compile it is sparse, but
>I suppose it wouldn't mean much to those requesting it anyway. Exploring
>around in the binaries let me patch mine to change the uucp suffix to com.

Alas, you cannot fit "oz.au" in the space "UUCP" provides. The
fellow tried. I did pass along the localdomain stuff, and I'll
wait to see if that helps.

I've got nothing against SCO shipping binaries. I do object to
SCO shipping ONLY binaries.


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