Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!karl
From: karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Duplicate site names
Message-ID: <3822@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 88 14:24:43 GMT
References: <872@uop.edu> <3569@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <214@edm.UUCP>
Organization: OSU
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In-reply-to: rroot@edm.UUCP's message of 4 Jan 88 23:19:08 GMT


rroot@edm.UUCP writes:
   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

Aliasing has never been a problem in this regard.  Our UUCP map entry
does not mention our Tut as just "tut" at all.  I just checked it to be
sure; it is always fully-qualified.

I reiterate: Within a Usenet Path: line, our Tut is unique, because he
will show up as a neighbor of osu-cis and/or bgsuvax.  That's all.
That's quite unique, assuming that no one tries to be "smart" and
screws it up.  So non-domainified replies will reach here correctly.
The From:, Sender:, Message-ID:, and whatever other lines mentioning
his name always use the full domain name, which is guaranteed unique.
Thus, the problem is still only that stuff from our Tut will not get
into Finland because of the presence of !tut! in the Path: line, and
vice versa.  I will fix that as soon as other fires die down, so that
he shows up in full-domain form in the Path: line as well.
-- 
Karl