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From: ane@hal.UUCP (Aydin "Bif" Edguer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.config
Subject: Re: Solution to news dup site names
Summary: This is not a solution to dup site names but why change subject now
Keywords: none
Message-ID: <281@hal.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 15:02:48 GMT
References: <1445@datapg.MN.ORG> <20246@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <2530@plus5.UUCP> <1290@ficc.UUCP> <20673@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: ane@hal.cwru.edu (Aydin "Bif" Edguer)
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Organization: Biometry Computing Facility
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In article <20673@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
 > In article <1290@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
 > > If you have a domain name, or are registered, check the path. Only
 > > put your full name in if nobody has already.
 > > That way, paths would have at least one valid, reachable, name.
 > If the Path: already contains a fully-qualified domain name and 
 > I therefore don't add to it, then the connectivity information is lost.
 > There might as well be no Path: line.
Bob, you didn't quite read Peter correctly I think.  He said only
put your full name if no one has.  Otherwise just use your short uucp
name.  You still appear in the Path: line, no connectivity information
has been lost BUT only a short name (up to 7 chars rather than say
22 chars as in tut.cis.ohio-state.edu) has been added to the path.
I do not think he was saying add nothing to the path.

 > But Path: lines aren't to be used for mail replies, only as an audit
 > trail ("Don't put that in your mouth, you don't where it's been!" :-)
 > to describe the path of the article.
That is the only reason why this would be okay.  However, I don't completely
agree that Path: lines are not used for mail replies.  If you have a
smart mailer (smail w/pathalias) or a convenient smarthost (uunet) who
has agreed to be your smarthost then Path: is an audit.  In the default
configuration though, Path: is used for mail replies, and thus MUST BE
VALID.  If the host ONLY responds to its fully qualified domain name
then it SHOULD use it.  With that additional qualification, I agree
with Peter.

 > We must be taking a lonely stance on this one - we're starting to be
 > used as a counterexample :-).
Your great connectivity helps to get you noticed.  Along with fame
comes notoriety :-)

Aydin Edguer					hal!ane or ane@hal.cwru.edu