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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
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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".
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