Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site plus5.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!plus5!hokey 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 Article-I.D.: plus5.634 Posted: Sat Mar 9 20:43:05 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 07:58:19 EST References: <1184@ukma.UUCP> <467@down.FUN> Reply-To: hokey@plus5.UUCP (Hokey) Organization: Plus Five Computer Services, St. Louis Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.news:3264 net.mail:776 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. -- Hokey ..ihnp4!plus5!hokey 314-725-9492