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From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Domains: Multiple names OK?
Message-ID: <5151@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Thu, 4-Sep-86 03:52:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: decwrl.5151
Posted: Thu Sep  4 03:52:53 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Sep-86 21:33:59 EDT
References: <566@mecc.UUCP> <2502@cbosgd.UUCP>
Reply-To: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid)
Organization: DEC Western Research
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In article <2502@cbosgd.UUCP> mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) writes:
>Yes, it's possible to have more than one name.  cbosgd will answer to
>cbosgd, cbosgd.UUCP, cbosgd.ATT.UUCP, and cbosgd.ATT.COM.  You do have
>to pick one primary name which you use on outgoing mail, ...

I claim that this is false. If a host is on several networks, it is quite
possible for it to have a different name on each network, and the name that
you use on outgoing mail must be the true name of the host on the network
over which the mail is being sent.