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From: emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Solution to news dup site names
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Date: 17 Aug 88 19:53:44 GMT
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In article <1445@datapg.MN.ORG> sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon) writes:
>News sites with the same name are invisible to each other.
>Articles from one site "xyz" are not sent to a second site "xyz" because
>the first "xyz" is found in the "Path" line.  This is particularly bad
>because all sites "xyz" may be hidden within private subdomains and
>none can be found in public site lists.

Then use full domain names in the news path header,
not just short names.

This is particularly important if you have large #s of internal
workstations and you don't want to try to make them unique.

Fully qualified names (like datapg.mn.org) are going to be
unique for a long time.

--Ed