Xref: utzoo news.admin:2412 comp.mail.uucp:1336 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Internet Paths in UUCP Maps -- Can We Stop? Message-ID: <25550@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 1 Jun 88 21:23:38 GMT Reply-To: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 23 I'd like to make a plea with all sites to stop listing Internet connections on their UUCP Maps. The problem is that it is getting increasingly difficult for me to generate meaningful pathalias output. I can twiddle the numbers to make the paths come out right, but this is becoming tedious. In this day of domains and smail, there is simply no good reason for any site to list their Internet connections on the UUCP Maps; domains handle the routing. Isn't this the whole reason domains were created, to simplify the maps? The worst "offenders" for us are Rutgers and Ames; I have discussed this with their respective administrations and they felt they wanted the map entries kept as is. But why? I mean, there is this nice bunch of lines in D.top: rutgers .uucp rutgers .arpa, .com, .gov, .mil, .edu, .org, .net, .us rutgers .de, .no, .nz rutgers .bitnet That tells me everything I need to know about rutgers connections. Given this, why does any site need to show explicit names in their list of links? Comments? Mel?