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From: honey@umix.cc.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Teaching pathalias about uucp name limitations?
Keywords: pathalias uucp name
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Date: 27 May 88 13:08:33 GMT
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Reply-To: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
Organization: Center for Information Technology Integration, Univ of Michigan
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this is not a pathalias bug.  furthermore, at least one version of
uucp allows host names to be 14 characters long, so truncation at
seven would be a disservice.

as for microsof and similar problems, this is a "garbage-in, garbage-out"
problem.  bang on the appropriate map coordinator.

	peter