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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)
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Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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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.
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