Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:1453 comp.unix.questions:8179 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!hal!ncoast!fmsrl7!mibte!ttardis!rlw From: rlw@ttardis (Ron Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: routing problems due to site name truncation Message-ID: <990118@ttardis.UUCP> Date: 11 Jul 88 15:05:59 GMT Reply-To: mibte!ttardis!rlw Lines: 14 A number of my friends have been sending mail to me at ttardis only to have it get lost somewhere due to some systems that truncate ttardis to ttardi. asside from renaming the site to ttardi (or some other 6 character name), does anybody have any idea as to what can be done to reduce or eliminate the confussion? (I have talked to all of the sites that I connect to and requested that they add either an alias or an extra entry in their L.sys files - helps a little, but.....) Thanks in advance. - Ron Wilson