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From: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Partial apology/explanation
Keywords: Maps comments
Message-ID: <5609@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 16 Aug 88 03:29:17 GMT
References: <281@execu.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin)
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In article <281@execu.UUCP> dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize) writes:
>I am one of those who had posted several updates about the system I administer,
>and I'm still not sure just what the limits are as to what I should post when,

The uucp maps are a relatively recent phenomenon.  Before the uucp maps existed,
new sites would post an announcement in news.newsites announcing the site.
news.config was used for announcements like "Our machine is down for a week",
or "We are moving to another location" and the like.

The state of the world a couple years ago was that sites were posting
new site announcements and updated map entries to news.newsites, although
the mapping project disavowed ever reading news.newsites.

More, recently, map updates have started to appear in news.config with
great regularity.

To a great extent, posting a map entry to any of these groups currently
has little effect on automated mail routing since most of the sites
doing routing depend on comp.mail.maps for routing information.  Postings
to comp.mail.maps have gone through some filters and are watched closely
by the mapping project for problems that can throw a wrench into the
works.  I think this is the main reason that routing sites depend on
the moderated group rather than picking up the information automaticly
from either news.newsites or news.config.

Perhaps with this perspective in mind, we can make a judgement on
the usefulness of posting frequent map updates to the news.all groups.


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Greg Laskin  greg@gryphon.CTS.COM    !gryphon!greg