Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830919); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!mcvax!piet 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 Article-I.D.: mcvax.5667 Posted: Mon Jan 30 06:32:14 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 31-Jan-84 03:34:24 EST References: <870@cbosgd.UUCP> <60@down.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 10 >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