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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: is your uuxqt broken?
Message-ID: <621@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 01:33:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: watcgl.621
Posted: Tue Aug  2 01:33:18 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Aug-83 01:28:24 EDT
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Actually, after a few days during which we tortured uuxqt's in several
parts of the country, watmath has been very careful to trim outgoing user
names to 8 characters.  Watcgl, which has been careful to make sure its
prospective connections can handle slightly longer names, still never
sends out anything longer than 12 characters, and the local versions of
uuxqt (embarrasingly) would blow up if fed anything longer than 29.
So full return addresses are likely to blow up almost EVERYONE's uuxqt.
This would make it so much more likely that errors will get mailed back
to where they should go, though, that it's worth the trouble.