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From: dave@uwvax.UUCP (Dave Cohrs)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: I am for splitting up the UUCP domain.
Message-ID: <143@uwvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 22:52:07 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  8 22:52:07 1985
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> incidentally, uwisc is the arpa name for uwvax.  other machines do the
> same thing:  umcp-cs == maryland, bostonu == bu-cs, suny-sb == sbcs.
> (i think i have the last two right.)  this seems a consummately stupid
> thing to do, and messes up pathalias, since the host name depends on
> the route.
> 
> i'll never understand why people do things this way.
> 
> 	peter

Especially concerning uwisc -- that local-network entry was not set up
correctly (not that it matters, if mail gets to uwvax, aliases will get
it to its actual destination -- no matter).  I think I've sent a
correct version of the uwisc network to the uucpmap'ers, so when the
next map comes out, it will be correct.  The problem is, that corrections
don't come out immediately, so when someone sends updates/corrections,
you have to wait three months for them.  Not that it really bothers me,
I can understand the job it is to keep those maps up to date.

By the by, uwisc is *not* uwvax's ARPAnet name, wisc-rsch is.  uwisc
is a backwards-compatable ARPAnet alias for wisc-crys and is also the
official name of our local network.  I know this seems confusing, it
confuses me sometimes :-)
-- 
dave cohrs
...!{allegra,harvard,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!dave
dave@wisc-rsch.arpa

    (bug?  what bug?  that's a feature!)