Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!utcsri!uthub!thomson From: thomson@uthub.UUCP Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Using "local" as a newsgroup name considered harmful Message-ID: <563@uthub.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 10:46:21 EDT Article-I.D.: uthub.563 Posted: Thu Aug 20 10:46:21 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 08:51:27 EDT References: <434@acornrc.UUCP> <587@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <14347@watmath.waterloo.edu> <8430@utzoo.UUCP> <2857@psuvax1.psu.edu> Reply-To: thomson@uthub.UUCP (Brian Thomson) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 11 Xref: utgpu news.admin:778 news.software.b:727 In article <2857@psuvax1.psu.edu> flee@gondor.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes: >Solution: Make all names unique. Either make sure they're globally >unique, like UUCP, or qualify the names, like ARPA: > /world/na/usa/canada/waterloo/uw.general ^^^^^^^^^^ >Something less clumsy would be better. Manifest Destiny, wot? -- Brian Thomson, CSRI Univ. of Toronto utcsri!uthub!thomson, thomson@hub.toronto.edu