Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ai!richr From: richr@ai.ARPA (Richard Rosenthal) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Internet Names versus USENET Names Message-ID: <76@ai.ARPA> Date: 9 May 88 15:24:12 GMT Reply-To: richr@ai.etl.army.mil (Richard Rosenthal) Followup-To: news.misc Organization: USAETL, Fort Belvoir, Virginia Lines: 28Please provide comments to the following: - I receive and send news only using the Internet. - The name of the machine running news just changed from: etl.arpa to: ai.etl.army.mil - The various pieces of news software pick-off the machine name using hostname(), thus, the news runs on machine name "ai". STATEMENT: ai does not seem like a good name to be passing around USENET style (flat name space) in places such as the path header of articles. etl was not a great name but it was better than ai. Should I hard wire a machine name something like "ai-etl-army-mil"? How are other similar sites handling this? As the American Express ad says, "What will you do? What will you do?" -- Richard Rosenthal | ARPANET: richr@etl.arpa US Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories | UUCP: ??? Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060-5546 | PHONE: +1 202 355 2830