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From: leonard@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: UUCP map for u.fra.0 (from comp.mail.maps)
Message-ID: <2293@qiclab.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 89 03:00:59 GMT
References: <7106@ki4pv.uucp> <1989Jul17.085440.9421@coms.axis.fr> <2444@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <1989Jul22.101400.7588@coms.axis.fr>
Reply-To: leonard@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Qic Laboratories, Portland, Oregon.
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In article <1989Jul22.101400.7588@coms.axis.fr> philip@coms.axis.fr (Philip Peake) writes:
<In article <2444@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>, wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) writes:
<> In article <1989Jul19.120102.19751@coms.axis.fr> philip@coms.axis.fr (Philip Peake) writes:
<> ]Not every site in the world uses these maps, nor do they need to.
<> ]In europe there are a handful of sites who use the maps.
<> 	First of all, a large number of sites in the US use
<> 	pathalias  to generate email routing information, and the
<> 	rest either forward their mail through a site that does or
<> 	use Usenet Path: lines for replies (a disreputable practice!).
<> 	Intelligent mailers make the maps useful for everyone.
<
<I know, its the 'large number' that I take issue with.
<Its really not needed - if things were organised more there, no one
<would be more than two, or three at most hops from a bacckbone site,
<say one per state - then any site need only know of sites connected
<directly to it, and how to reach the backbone - thats the default route.

Ever try routing something a!b!c!d!e only to discover that c didn't know
how to talk to d? Or get an address of the form abc@xyz where you've got
no idea *where* xyz is? That's why people in North America want a
*local* copy of the maps to refer to.
-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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