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 Lines: 18 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. -- Larry Blair ames!vsi1!lmb lmb%vsi1@ames.arc.nasa.gov