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From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.config
Subject: Re: Map updates in news.config
Message-ID: <230@pigs.UUCP>
Date: 12 Aug 88 19:55:04 GMT
References: <670@ontenv.UUCP> <278@execu.UUCP> <5910@bigtex.uucp>
Reply-To: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie)
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[ notice the followup, let's get the noise down in here ]

In article <5910@bigtex.uucp> james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
>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?
>
>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.

to start things off, i think this entire discussion started because norman
soley was not specific in who he wanted to stop posting map updates.  i
find the weekly jclyde update to be, well, amusing since i can't figure
out who john keeps changing.  flatline is another one that i think changes
(pardon me eric if i'm falsely accusing you) connections based on moon
phase ... who knows.  so some of us are into posting update, big deal.
last i heard, the usenix groups like talking about erik fair's body
hair or shoes or something.

i took particular offense at normans remark because he was being so
generic in his accusation.  there are lowly little texas sites which
handle a considerable amount of traffic.  i hear tell that bigtex is
a big mover in the austin area, and judging from the sudden burst of
mail traffic i've seen lately, someone decided rpp386 is a good site for
running mail to and from dallas through.

let us each decide just how proud we are that we just added our fourth
or our fortieth connection.  for some people, like john meaders,
four or five links is a major feat.  others of us are just too egomaniacal
to not post.  and if the administrators at ihnp4, or uunet or allegra
think we are silly people because we don't have 1000+ sites in our map,
so be it.
-- 
 jfh@rpp386.uucp	(The Beach Bum at The Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers)
     "Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity"
                -- Hanlon's Razor