[TUHS] Of login (and host) names

[John Cowan]

Norman Wilson scripsit:

> So far as I recall, nothing broke.  Some people who were
> involved with TCP/IP networking at the labs were frightened
> about it; I don't remember whether that Cray was ever connected
> to an IP network so I don't know whether anything went wrong
> there.  Of course such names are not a problem today, 

ISTR that {net,comp}.bugs.4bsd gave some news software a headache.

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