From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!davec Newsgroups: net.news Title: Long system names Article-I.D.: tektronix.979 Posted: Sun Feb 20 00:14:44 1983 Received: Mon Feb 21 02:02:01 1983 For people who are tired of news arbitrarily chopping off part of their system name, or people otherwise interested, I've posted to net.sources the necessary changes to news2.9 to implement longer system names. It still isn't perfect (there's still a limit of 32 characters), but that's a lot better than 8. From what I've heard, version 2.10 of news will also support longer system names, so this problem should start to go away. Dave Clemans Tektronix