Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!shadooby!terminator!terminator.cc.umich.edu!honey From: honey@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Info on grade and seqno in Shere/Shostname startup sequence Message-ID: <1989Sep30.222015.22608@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Date: 30 Sep 89 22:20:15 GMT References: <677.251ac6ac@simpact.com> <39035@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Sender: news@terminator.cc.umich.edu Reply-To: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) Organization: Center for Information Technology Integration, Univ of Michigan Lines: 10 Phil Budne writes: >I think the lore is that -vgrade= is (largely) historical. honey danber uses -vgrade= -- rick was being nice to at&t. (at&t did not return the favor.) using the private sequence number is not recommended -- it has never been tested ... peter