Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!houxe!drutx!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!vortex!lauren@RAND-UNIX.ARPA From: lauren@RAND-UNIX.ARPA@vortex.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: uucp sitenames Message-ID: <12818@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Aug-84 17:40:10 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12818 Posted: Sat Aug 25 17:40:10 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Aug-84 02:34:41 EDT Lines: 18 From: Lauren Weinstein As it turns out, the problem of long (> 6 or > 7) sitenames in the UUCP's that allow such names (when talking to other software that doesn't) can be fixed by clever additions of multiple sitename entries in the appropriate tables. However, it should be noted that the UUCP project plans to insist on 6 char uniqueness in sitenames for the immediate to middle future. Once again, this is UNIQUENESS, not absolute length. The problem of truncated sitenames is not going to go away. In fact, on some OS's for which UUCP's are about to become available, the directory organizations which could allow for longer sitenames simply are not practical. The number of UUCP's running on these systems might quickly outnumber all other UUCP versions combined, which means that truncation (in this case at 7 characters) will be present for a very long time to come on a very large number of sites. A necessary evil on many small systems. --Lauren--