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From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: net.news.config
Subject: Re: Two sites with the same name ?????
Message-ID: <5667@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 06:32:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 06:32:14 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 31-Jan-84 03:34:24 EST
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Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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	>How can there possibly be an "authority" that decides what
	>uucp name you're allowed to give your machine?
Since it's anarchy that rules the net, it's common sense that has to
prevent it from getting screwed up. Thus a site joining in later and
choosing a name already in use has a choice between anarchy and keeping
that name or common sense and changing it.
-- 
	Piet Beertema
	CWI (Center for Math. & Comp. Science), Amsterdam
	...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet