richr@ai.ARPA (Richard Rosenthal) (05/09/88)
<This package was filled by weight not volume.> 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?" -- Richard Rosenthal | ARPANET: richr@etl.arpa US Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories | UUCP: ??? Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060-5546 | PHONE: +1 202 355 2830
richr@ai.ARPA (Richard Rosenthal) (05/09/88)
And yes I know that the From: line and the Article: line are busted in the articles that I am posting. I am in the process of fixing that. -- Richard Rosenthal | ARPANET: richr@etl.arpa US Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories | UUCP: ??? Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060-5546 | PHONE: +1 202 355 2830
wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) (05/12/88)
That's easy. Make your news software always use the name "ai.etl.army.mil", even in Path lines. Check defs.h carefully; I think it has some provision for this. Although I could be wrong. ..b