Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!nic.MR.NET!umn-cs!bungia!datapg!sewilco From: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Solution to news dup site names Message-ID: <1474@datapg.MN.ORG> Date: 19 Aug 88 21:34:20 GMT Article-I.D.: datapg.1474 References: <1445@datapg.MN.ORG> <20246@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon) Followup-To: news.software.b Distribution: na Organization: Data Progress, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 14 In article <20246@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: >sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG writes: > News sites with the same name are invisible to each other. > >Why not just have fully-qualified domain names in the Path: header? To keep the Path: header from becoming inconveniently long. This might be defined as either "too large for a buffer" or "longer than the text of the message". -- Scot E. Wilcoxon sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG {amdahl|hpda}!bungia!datapg!sewilco Data Progress UNIX masts & rigging +1 612-825-2607 uunet!datapg!sewilco Proud owner of a new power supply. The previous one blinked blue-white. "Have you ever been kissed by lightning?" -- 'So you wanted to meet the wizard'