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From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: *uucp* addresses - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 22-Nov-83 03:58:50 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 22 03:58:50 1983
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#R:menlo70:-18800:hpfcla:17200002:000:936
hpfcla!ajs    Nov 15 17:46:00 1983

Considering  the general  anarchy of nodename  selection,  the only safe
rule is this:  Before  you pick  one,  check to make sure  someone  else
hasn't  already  got it.  How do you do  that?  For  starters,  you  can
search the data  posted to  net.news.map.  It's good for over a thousand
nodenames.  They are  easier  to see if you run  mkpath  on the data and
look at its  output.  That way you see  "hidden"  systems  too --  those
which only appear as connections in other systems' entries.

By the way...  There are at least 50 systems in the world,  most not yet
announced  publicly,  which  belong to HP  (Hewlett  Packard)  and whose
nodenames  start  with  "hp".  As far as I can  tell,  we are  the  only
organization using that prefix, and we are consistent in the use of it.

Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado
ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcla!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43"