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From: hokey@plus5.UUCP (Hokey)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.mail
Subject: Re: I am for splitting up the UUCP domain.
Message-ID: <634@plus5.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 20:43:05 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  9 20:43:05 1985
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Summary: 

The whole point of the mapping project is to fix things so individual
mail administrators won't have to do anything to support the database.

I don't want this to sound like a flame from left field, but I can't
understand why the people in charge of the mapping project (Mark and
Karen, at the top of the administrative heap, I believe) didn't run
the maps through pathalias *before* posting the maps!  The whole purpose
of this second posting was to provide something cleaner than the first
posting.

The regional administrators should also have scrutinized the maps better.
The local aliases should be removed.  The bizzare weights should have been
caught and fixed.  (The map for usa.mo was a reposting of the original map;
the corrected version I sent in was not posted, and the subsequent copy
I sent to uucpmap was also never posted.)  I was also amazed at the number
of missing entries in the maps.  My messages to the map folks regarding
several of these oversights seem to have been ignored.

I can't help but wonder if the maps were posted "as-is" just to "prove" to
people that a flat namespace won't work.  This doesn't make a lot of sense
to me, because if the current administrators can't make these simple tables
correct and complete, I don't know how anybody can expect the same bunch
to make a domain space work.
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