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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Using "local" as a newsgroup name considered harmful
Message-ID: <2860@phri.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 09:48:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 19 09:48:43 1987
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In article <8430@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> U of Toronto occasionally sees U of Texas news too.  Geoff and I are thinking
> about a solution for this for C news; it's not simple.

	Seems to me that "which ut usenet distribution do you mean?" is
exactly the same as the "which zeus uucp site do you mean?" problem that
plagues uucp mail auto-routers.  Both types of name only make sense
relative to a particular site.  Anybody for registered usenet domains?
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016