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From: dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.config
Subject: Re: Map updates in news.config
Message-ID: <278@execu.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 88 16:05:55 GMT
References: <670@ontenv.UUCP>
Reply-To: dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize)
Organization: Execucom Systems Corp., Austin, Texas
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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 
>times in a week! 
>
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 don't know what it is about Canadians.  Actually, I don't have a problem
with Canadians, except for idiots that babble about Texans.  Beats making
a statement with meaning, eh?

>I'm sure that most of the net can wait for a "proper" map
>update to find out that flibitz has added a connection to bloop 
>especially if pathalias already gives a valid path for bloop. 

I'm sure the net can do without 95% of the postings that are put out every
day - so?  That means that because YOU don't care about timely info then
no one else should?  Maybe we should also not publish the silly maps but
once every few YEARS, so you don't get inundated with boring info - you
most likely don't care to know how to get to 99% of the the rest of the
world anyhow, so why be swamped with this boring stuff!?
>
>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.
>-- 
Complaining about recieving the most current information by folks that happen
to CARE about information being as accurate as they can make it is a really
interesting way to define 'cruft'.  Of course, you don't figure massively
in OUR list of priorities, but I at least am not suggesting that 'something
be done' (by the way, by who?  You just became a backbone? 1/2 :-) about you
posting on news.config something that is not config info.

Please post on here all the extremely useful, brilliant info that YOU have
been appointed to bring to those of us not so enlightened, so we can learn
by your sterling example, Ok?  Thank you SO MUCH.
>Norman Soley - Data Communications Analyst - Ontario Ministry of the Environment
>UUCP:	utgpu!ontmoh!------------\              VOICE:	+1 416 323 2623
>	{attcan,utzoo}!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!norm	
>             "witty saying not available due to writers strike"


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