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From: page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: news.config
Subject: What happened to the maps?
Message-ID: <923@ulowell.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 23:43:25 EST
Article-I.D.: ulowell.923
Posted: Wed Jan  7 23:43:25 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 8-Jan-87 18:45:12 EST
Reply-To: page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell
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Summary: The u.usa.ma.1 map is bogus, others might be also.  Check.

It was pointed out that my map entry in u.usa.ma.1 is rather old -
over a year old, in fact.  Nah, I said, can't be.  I've SEEN some
from pretty recent.

So I looked through all of u.usa.ma.1 .. Yow!  There are a lot
of sites with old (read: bogus) map entries!  Some look OK, some
are surely wrong.  I did not check other files besides u.usa.ma.1,
so I don't know how widespread the problem is.

u.usa.ma.1 should be considered suspect.  All site admins everywhere
should check your map entries.  And rather than post a zillion correct
map entries to news.config, let's just find the old ones, ok?

It's true that ulowell is (correct as of a month ago) in the d.usa.ma.1
map, but I'm not convinced that people are using the d.* files as much
as they should be (you should be, they don't hurt anything as long as
you put them through pathalias with the u.* files).

Note that this is for the Dec postings - I have not seen the Jan ones
yet except for some att sites.

..Bob
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Bob Page,  U of Lowell CS Dept.      ulowell!page,  page@ulowell.CSNET