Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ubvax!vsi1!lmb
From: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Why the maps cannot be accurate
Message-ID: <1043@vsi1.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 88 21:01:56 GMT
Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA
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o Most maps are distributed only once a month.

o There is another delay from when a updated entry is sent to a map
  coordinater until it is posted of up to another month.

These two reasons are sufficient to add up to 2 months delay in posting.
When you add to that situations, like right now, where u.usa.ca.6 has
not been posted since July, you have even more inaccuracies in the maps.
In fact, I've had a number of pieces of mail come through my site looking
for "pdi", with which we haven't had contact in months.  They got there
because someone (hplabs?  It's hard to tell because they sent it sun!vsi1!pdi,
which caused the headers to get clobbered) rerouted what was probably a
reasonable path based on inaccurate data.

This, of course, is only the weaker of the two major reasons not to
reroute.
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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb%vsi1@ames.arc.nasa.gov