Awatmath.1793 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Thu Feb 18 18:30:14 1982 uucp spools It seems to me that uucp should perhaps have been done with directories for every machine. ie. instead of D.decvaxX1000 have decvax/DX1000 or would this slow down things even more? It would remove the 7 character restriction on system names (or at least extend it to 14) And allow longer sequence numbers. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.