Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!alberta!teletron!andrew
From: andrew@teletron.UUCP (Andrew Scott)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: UUCP map extraction
Message-ID: <158@teletron.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 87 18:07:20 GMT
Organization: TeleTronic Communications Ltd., Edmonton, Alta.
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I would like to automatically extract the UUCP maps from comp.mail.maps as
they arrive each month.  I understand that some software is floating around
which does this.  I'd like to get my hands on a current version of such a
beast...

Also, how does the new map distribution mechanism affect such extraction?
The "Supercedes:" field in the header replaces an old article with a more
current version.  I don't see how that would help with updating maps, as
un-sharing the updates as they come in would overwrite the old files anyway.
How are we supposed to maintain the set of map files?

Thanks,
	Andrew		(..alberta!teletron!andrew)