Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!dan
From: dan@maccs.McMaster.CA (Dan Trottier)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: About us Texans.
Message-ID: <1369@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Date: 17 Aug 88 12:56:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.1369
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Reply-To: dan@maccs.UUCP (Dan Trottier)
Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can.
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I sometimes wonder how many sites actually take the map updates posted in
this newsgroup and actually go through the effort to patch them into the
map distribution. In any case it would seem that the present system doesn't
satisfy these needs. What is really needed is automated software for taking
these individual postings and merging them into the pathalias database.

People should agree on a format and newsgroup name (comp.mail.maps.hurry :-)
for these updates. Once that is done we could then modify the map unpacking
software and pathalias to handle this now manual task.

Much more productive than flaming each other I would think.

dan
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