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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
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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?