Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stc!stl!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Who pays the bill? Message-ID: <1990Sep14.215648.4421@robobar.co.uk> Date: 14 Sep 90 21:56:48 GMT References: <1990Sep14.031841.305@julius.cs.uiuc.edu> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 26 In the referenced article, coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu writes: > We don't have the option --- our USENET name _is_ our FQDN. We don't > do UUCP, just NNTP. Therefore, we're not allowed (according to our > map coordinator) to have a map entry. > I'd just as soon have a map entry and a USENET name, and not use my > FQDN in Path: lines. But that doesn't seem to be possible... No chance of relocating UIUC to the United Kingdom I guess ? The situation here is exactly the REVERSE. ALL news sites have to be registered in the maps with a UUCP name, regardless of whether they run UUCP or not. Let me do a rough count. Of the 614 mapped sites (as of 1st September) 242 definitely do UUCP, 213 don't say, and the remaining 159 say they don't do UUCP. (The internal UK maps have a field to state which mechanism they can do news transfer over -- most of the non-uucp sites do a peculiar kind of FTP called NIFTP over the UK X.25 academic network JANET). Now, *I*'d argue that *your* map coordinator is right, and that only *real* UUCP sites should be in the maps, but the UKNet authorities seems to be on your side. Perhaps we should swap countries ? :-) -- my .signature is on holiday