Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!edm!rroot From: rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: A bigger problem (was: Mail survey #1) Message-ID: <3283@edm.UUCP> Date: 29 Sep 88 01:32:17 GMT References: <800@bacchus.dec.com> Organization: Unexsys Systems Inc., Edmonton,AB. Lines: 23 From article <800@bacchus.dec.com>, by vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie): > Yes, people could set up their systems to send in map data every week or day > or hour. I don't wish to be required to do two things, though: > 1. Publish all my connections. Some of my connections are for private use > 2. Tell the UUCP Project about it whenever I add something I _do_ intend to > publish. I will tell them eventually, like in about three weeks or so > after I've added and deleted and tuned and munged and stabilized things. I agree that people shouldn't be forced to publish private sites, but they SHOULD be willing to do is publish the sites that you DON'T connect to. More precisely: when you stop feeding a site, or know that you soon will, you should publish a new map with that site removed ASAR! (As Soon As Reasonable). It doesn't do people much good to send mail to a dead-end site because of out-of-date maps, but it DOESN't hurt if they send things thru a less-than-optimal path. -- ------------- Stephen Samuel (userzxcv@ualtamts.bitnet or alberta!edm!steve) (Only in Canada, you say??.... Pity!)