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From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
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Subject: Re: Two sites with the same name ?????
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 06:03:27 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 06:03:27 1984
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	>A more obvious problem: how is the new site to know of the coordinator
	>until he's been on the net (and flamed at ...) ?
The site he hooks up to should provide him with the latest net.news.map
contents and/or the routing map. By checking that against the chosen
sitename you can be reasonably sure about the uniqueness of that name.
-- 
	Piet Beertema
	CWI (Center for Math. & Comp. Science), Amsterdam
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