long address paths

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From: utzoodecvaxwivaxlinussmk
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1982 11:51

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	In a recent article on the net, it was shown that
some paths between systems are 16 long.  Given the full 7 char
machine names (although some names can be longer, but only the first
7 are significant [8 for news]), added to the name (8 letters)
this is 136 characters.  MAXFULLNAME in uucp is defined as 100.
This is inadequate and caused out uuxqt to fail on processesing
mail from a remote site that was to be forwarded.  Making
#define MAXFULLNAME BUFSIZ
in uucp.h will take care of this.  Obviously, the net has grown
past the expectations of the original developers of uucp.

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From: utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!smk
Newsgroups: net.bugs
Title: long address paths
Article-I.D.: linus.317
Posted: Sun Dec 12 11:51:40 1982
Received: Mon Dec 13 02:33:12 1982
Subject: long address paths
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1982 11:51:40 +0000
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