On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Ron Stordahl wrote:
> All of a sudden I have received a flurry of responses to my posting in
> March 1999. I don't know what has caused this, but re-reading them
> causes me to remember a few additional points.
I had this too. Seems that a host in .cz re-posted every single message
posted to linux-hams last year to all the recipients except linux-hams. So
I received a lot of mail that either had me listed in To: or Cc:, or that
were also cross-posted to xfbb or debian-hams...
> I now recall why a 6 character alias caused problems. It was because I had
> used a number as the 6th character. Specifically we had a node
> STCDX:K0IR-7 and I added a node STCDX1:K0IR-2. Surrounding TheNet
> X1J nodes would not deal correctly (yes I know that's pretty vague - I don't
> remember the exact details) with STCDX1. I had to change it to STCDXA
> at which point all was well. STCDX1 may be legal, standards wise, but it
> appears the alias parser in TheNet or BPQ may be not up to the job.
Strange. We have a lot of nodes with such aliases here. Right now I can
find HYVI10, LOHJA2, LOHJA7, LOHJA8, LOHJA9 on my list. And in the past we
used to use aliases of the style #8IP46 (oh2bns.ampr.org = 44.139.8.46).
Those LOHJA nodes are TheNet nodes and BPQ and X1J are also used here.
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