Xref: utzoo news.admin:3249 news.config:849 Path: utzoo!linus!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!milano!bigtex!james From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.config Subject: Re: Map updates in news.config Message-ID: <5910@bigtex.uucp> Date: 12 Aug 88 01:04:36 GMT References: <670@ontenv.UUCP> <278@execu.UUCP> Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) Distribution: na Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX Lines: 27 In article <278@execu.UUCP>, dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize) wrote: > What is your problem with this? You don't want people to try to keep > accurate data out there? Its overloading your machine? You can't handle > the massive amounts of data? I'll ignore most of the Dewey's flamage. How many people do you really think do an update of map data out of news.config? I certainly don't - I use uuhosts to pull the data out of comp.mail.maps only. The value of news.config to me is to know how news and mail might flow. Within Texas I think information about tness7 links are useful, because those links are fairly frequent and free (unlikely bigtex links into Dallas, which are free but infrequent). execu updates are useful to some Austinites for the maintaining manually constructed smail path data. But I honestly can't conceive of how data from any non-backbone site (I'll throw tness7 in this catagory even though it probably has enough downstream feeds to be considered a backbone) could be of interest in another state, much less another country. I would agree that such things ought to be posted with distribution limited to those interested. -- James R. Van Artsdalen ...!uunet!utastro!bigtex!james "Live Free or Die" Home: 512-346-2444 Work: 328-0282; 110 Wild Basin Rd. Ste #230, Austin TX 78746