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From: north@down.UUCP (Professor X)
Newsgroups: net.news.config
Subject: Re: Two sites with the same name ?????
Message-ID: <60@down.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 15:16:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 26 15:16:59 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jan-84 11:57:23 EST
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How can there possibly be an "authority" that decides what uucp name you're
allowed to give your machine?  If I pick a name the "authority" doesn't
like, how is it going to stop me and my uucp neighbors from using it?
For purposes such as automatic mail routing it is convenient to think
of the uucp network as having unique absolute names but in fact the
naming convention is strictly relative.  The fact that there are two
distinct sites named iuvax makes this obvious.

	Stephen C North