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From: wollman@SADYE.UVM.EDU (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Another strange WP problem...
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Date: 30 Jan 91 04:54:54 GMT
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I am presently telling the AMS programs to verify user names via WP,
which I assemble by hand (or at any rate, not manually).  Recently, I
found this problem when sending mail to a friend (and potential user)
in CUI:

I enter a To: address of tom.emerson.  Upon submission, cui tells me
The name 'Tom Emerson <tree@sadye.uvm.edu>' is ambiguous.
It then lists my alternatives:
"Tree,,," (others) <emerson@sadye.uvm.edu>
Tom Emerson (staff) <tree@sadye.uvm.edu>

I, knowing Tree, direct CUI to send it to the second alternative.  Wups!

The name 'Tom Emerson <tree@sadye.uvm.edu>' is ambiguous.
[and on it goes]

Now since we don't run AMDS (and I'm not sure TPTB can ever be convinced
to do so, unless I can solve problems like this before the Users
find out about them), the only way to get out of this situation is
to change the To: address to point to Tree on another machine.

Now my question is:
  1) Would AMDS do the same thing (AAAAUGH!)?
  2) How can I solve this, preferably without deleting the other
     account manually from WP (or changing the nickname)?

As a side issue, is it possible to get the WP-ized version of finger?

-GAWollman