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