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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr> writes:

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

Maybe, but Gnus already provides a workaround for a different case of
brokenness (having just the host name).

kai
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