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
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Please 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?"

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