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From: jeff@hammer.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Registered sitenames
Summary: News only to 'registered' sites? ack
Keywords: registered hostnames, domains, maps
Message-ID: <3191@hammer.TEK.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 88 02:01:34 GMT
References: <1590@sigma.UUCP> <4750002@hpscdc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: jeff@hammer.UUCP (Jeff Beadles)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR
Lines: 22

In article <4750002@hpscdc.HP.COM> garyg@hpscdc.HP.COM (Gary Gitzen) writes:

>>It also means that if there is another machine on the net with your
>>site name on it, you'll never see postings from it, so you may never find
>>out they exist. Unfortunately, the code is deeply ingrained in the net, so
>>it's rather hard to change.
>
>Sounds like a good reason to register one's sitename. If newsfeeds were
>routed only to registered sites, the problem wouldn't occur.
>

This has one very obvious flaw.  There are hundreds of machines that exist
within domans.  Many of those machines are not 'in the maps'.  Does this mean
that we have to add all of the hosts that are within a domain to the already
huge maps?  I can't see the advantage of doing this.


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