Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!alberta!edm!rroot
From: rroot@edm.UUCP (uucp)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Duplicate site names
Message-ID: <214@edm.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 88 23:19:08 GMT
References: <872@uop.edu> <3569@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Unexsys Systems Inc., Edmonton,AB.
Lines: 23
Summary: The name 'tut' should be qualified in the UUCP domain

In article <3569@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
	(Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
> robert@uop.edu writes:
> That's us, on tut.cis.ohio-state.edu, a Pyramid 98x which is the
>  ....   Our Tut always refers to himself by
> full domain name in all mail-related things, and the only other place
> where his name is mentioned is in outbound Path: lines in news
> headers, where he shows up as a neighbor of osu-cis and bgsuvax, thus
> assuring his uniqueness within the frame of reference.
Since there is already a !tut site in the uucp domain, you should have
created a name like !osc-tut for USENET usage -- even if you didn't use it
for other stuff.
  This site (!edm) was going to be called !toy, until it was found out that
the site already existed somewhere near New York. Unfortuntely, by the time we
realized this, it did some really odd things to the alias program on !alberta
at the time (once we changed !edm, !neyessa (a site we feed) was still aliased
as toy!neyessa and, therfore got forwarded to the REAL toy, who knew NOTHING of
neyessa and bounced all the messages...).  It took a week or so to realize where
the problem was.
-- 
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 Stephen Samuel 
  {ihnp4,ubc-vision,seismo!mnetor,vax135}!alberta!edm!steve