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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.news.config
Subject: sitename lengths (e.g. psuvax1)
Message-ID: <340@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10-Jun-84 19:44:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: vortex.340
Posted: Sun Jun 10 19:44:54 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 10-Jun-84 21:30:09 EDT
Organization: Vortex Technology, Los Angeles
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I'd like to emphasize that the policy of the UUCP project (in regards
to the mapping and registry databases) is that UUCP sitenames must be
unique in the first 6 characters.  They are free to be LONGER than 
6 chars, so long as uniqueness in the first 6 is maintained.  The limitation
of 6 instead of 7 characters has been caused by System V releases which
(unwisely) decided to truncate at 6 characters.  While we'll be watching
this situation over time and will change the policy if/when it seems
practical, we're pretty much stuck with 6 for now.

While we'll happily change psuvax's name to "psuvax1", we will be
unable to register any of "psuvax2", "psuvax3", etc. in either the
mapping or registry databases, and those names will be "un-sites"
(sort of like an "un-person" I guess) as far as the databases are
concerned.

It is strongly recommended that sites choose names that are unique
in the first 6 characters!

--Lauren--