What must uucp names be limited to 7 characters?

[Earl Wallace]

Can someone tell me why I cannot use 8 character uucp names?  Is there a 
history to this?  What pain could I expect if I allowed uucp to run 8 
character names?  I noticed that the source has lots of code to keep the
system name trimmed to 7 characters and I never really understood why.

While we are on this subject, when the heck is a really good public-domain
uucp going to hit the streets?  
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	Earl Wallace
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