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From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.config
Subject: Re: Map updates in news.config
Summary: bone-headed ontarians ...
Message-ID: <5359@rpp386.UUCP>
Date: 12 Aug 88 07:43:18 GMT
References: <670@ontenv.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Organization: HASA, "S" Division
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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! 

we do try to keep a tight leash on john meaders down here, but he
manages to slip in the occasional map update for jclyde.  some day he
will have a much bigger system and all that practice will come in
handy.

>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. 

trouble i'm having right now is people with mysterious one way
connections into my system.  right now half the net things the
best way from uunet to dallas involves swbatl and rpp386.  the
path swbatl!rpp386 is plenty valid, as are many others; hell, last
time i checked, ontenv!rpp386 should even work.  the opposite is
not true and keeping pathalias convinced is a real bitch.

>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.

well, like i said, for some of us this is a world wide sort of
problem.  uustat -montenv tells me even you have the potential to
be a bad boy, norman.

% uustat -montenv
ontenv	07/19-09:51	conversation succeeded

looks like it's been about three weeks since you paid a visit, so
maybe next time i'll put !can on the distribution line ;-)
leave us poor texans alone.  you wouldn't want us to grab some
tennessee volunteers and do to canada what we once did to mexico ...
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