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From: bruce@petro.UUCP (Gilbert B. Andreen)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.config
Subject: Re: Map updates in news.config
Summary: mail routing data is important - noise ain't
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Date: 12 Aug 88 09:05:10 GMT
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In article <670@ontenv.UUCP> soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) writes:
>Can something be done about the practice some sites have of posting
>their map entry to news.config every time they add or drop local
>connections (I don't know what it is about Texans). Sometimes multiple 

The answer is probably not, and besides there are many folks out there
who would rather use the most current data on site connectivity to generate
pathalias information instead of data that they know to be incorrect.

There should be a better way to make pathalias data available to all sites
as quickly as possible other than the massive monthly map postings.  I know
this has been suggested before and it's still a problem in search of a
solution -- perhaps a newsgroup that contains only pathalias data (map
entries without the lines starting with #) which could be updated daily,
weekly, or whatever.  I'm not making a proposal here, just dragging out a
dead horse for yet another flogging.

What it is about Texans:  Are you trying to start a war or something ?
It would be my guess that your gonna hear what it is about Texans.
(You really shouldn't have written that -- it wasn't nice and it has the
potential of wasting more disk space than the MES nonsense)

>I'll concede that these things are of interest to those in the 
>vicinity of the involved site but can we please cut out the worldwide
>distribution of this cruft.

Actually everyone should be interested because if mail to unknown site bloop
is not addressed with a full path or to a domain that knows about bloop
it's gonna bounce, which means twice the cost and nothing gets accomplished.

Posted late at night from The Free State of Bexar in The Republic of Texas.
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Gilbert B. Andreen  -  bruce@petro.UUCP
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