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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Gnus now looks to see if (system-name) evals to a string containing
> at least one dot, and if so, it assumes that this is a FQDN.

That's the way it's always been done.  Many programs assume that when
hostname contains a dot, it means it's FQDN.  Emacs itself does that.

> But it seems that many people have machines where the string is
> "localhost.localdomain" or "foo.bar" (or, in one case,
> "egon.matrix").

Isn't this broken?