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From: pc@ukc.UUCP (R.P.A.Collinson)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Many machines, one news system
Message-ID: <4643@ukc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Nov-84 16:30:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 23 16:30:45 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Nov-84 08:43:58 EST
Reply-To: pc@ukc.UUCP (Pete Collinson)
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Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Kent at Canterbury, UK
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Consider the following:
	An installation consists of several machines connected by a local
	area network.

	The installation wishes to be known by one public name and does not
	want to emit news and mail marked with the internal names of machines.

	The news system is driven by one machine which can have two
	names - one internal and one external.

Problem:
	News is processor based and inserts local machine names when news
	items are submitted. News items are identified by the processor
	name and an article id.

Question:
	Has anyone come up (or wanted to come up) with a solution. I want to
	allow the users of local processors to initiate and reply to news
	but without external sites seeing any name other than ukc.

Comment:
	Solutions to this problem and related issues with mail are going to
	become increasingly important. In general, I neither wish or need to
	know which processor in a local area network is being used by a 
	particular person today, local routing should cope. Current practice
	with mailers and the news system make local machines visible - when
	a simpler installation address should suffice.
Peter Collinson
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