On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 14:29:41 -0500 Paul Franco said:
>> >> You have to explicitly name every host:
>> >>
>> >> :nick.PERI.COM :alias.HOST1.PERI.COM HOST2.PERI.COM
>> >
>> >
>> >===> Last round of questions...
>> >
>> >Would I need to do this for every user? or can I use a
>> >wild card for the user:
>>
>> This is host_name aliasing, i.e. we are only dealing with the right side of
>> [log in to unmask]  userID's are not a part of this process.
>>
>
>So, in the example above, are you saying that "nick" is a host name rather
>than a user name?  Is that correct?

No, :nick. is a tag (label) that tells LISTSERV "here is the nickname",
just as the :alias. tag tells LISTSERV "here is the alias that belongs to
the nickname".  For the nickname PERI.COM you define aliases such as
HOST1.PERI.COM and HOST2.PERI.COM by using the syntax as shown.

This is the exact same :tag.data format used by LISTSERV in (for instance)
the BITEARN NODES and intpeers.names files.

Nathan