Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site akgua.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!glc From: glc@akgua.UUCP (G.L. Cleveland [Lindsay]) Newsgroups: net.news.config Subject: Re: We've Changed Our Site Name Message-ID: <1155@akgua.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Dec-84 02:45:31 EST Article-I.D.: akgua.1155 Posted: Mon Dec 24 02:45:31 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Dec-84 02:40:34 EST References: <71@galbp.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Technologies/Bell Labs, Atlanta Lines: 24 > We have changed our site name from "lanierrnd" to "galbp" > > Lanier Business Products, Inc. > Atlanta, Georgia > > -- > tom bohannon > computer r&d > {akgua,gatech}!galbp!tab For those who may wonder WHY!? : Site "lanierrnd" has been bitten too often by the bug in some uucp systems which allow only 6 or 7 characters in a site name. A long site name often causes lost mail. P.S. There is no truth to the rumor that "GALBP" stands for "Georgia Light Bulb [Joke] Perpetrators" Cheers, Lindsay Lindsay Cleveland (...{ihnp4|mcnc|sdcsvax|clyde}!akgua!glc) AT&T Technologies/Bell Laboratories ... Atlanta, Ga (404) 447-3909 ... Cornet 583-3909