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From: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The UUCP domain
Message-ID: <776@redsox.bsw.com>
Date: 8 Jun 89 11:05:37 GMT
References: <1393@istop.ist.CO.UK> <560@lakart.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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In article <560@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
-No, the _REAL_ problem is that .UUCP is an anarchy: there is no central
-authority. For example, look at the recent fulcrum uproar, and there are
-two edsel's in .UUCP. To take things to their logical extreme, my home
-machine is pallio.uucp (unique as far as I was able to check, and I looked
-very carefully). However, there is nothing except my concience (and good
-sense) to prevent me from calling it mcvax, or decvax, or uunet or anything
-else. It is left as an excercise to evaluate the level of confusion and
-trauma that would result :-)

But there _is_ a central authority:  the uucp map project.  I thought the
map folks (Mel et alia) were supposed to check your entry and reject it if
it's a duplicate name.  Now, you can still go and pick a dumb name and not
list yourself in the map, but as far as I and many others are concerned (we
run a fascist mailer here), if you're not in the map, you don't exist.
You might have trouble getting mail, but you won't mess anyone else up.
-- 
Larry Campbell                          The Boston Software Works, Inc.
campbell@bsw.com                        120 Fulton Street
wjh12!redsox!campbell                   Boston, MA 02146