Xref: utzoo news.admin:12655 news.misc:6234 comp.mail.uucp:6051 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wotan!moxie!sugar!ficc!taronga!peter From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: New rules for UUPSI Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 91 18:42:50 GMT References: <1991Mar10.112826.2231@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Organization: A corner of our bedroom Lines: 32 xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > Suddenly populating the net > with a new class of entities, leaves that cannot become nodes, is making > second class citizens of part of the net. Come on, Kent. This is an exxageration at best. The standard news and mail software can handle UUPSIs conditions without any fancy maneuvering. There is no reason that UUPSI customers can't get all the alternate connections they want, so long as they look like a leaf to UUPSI. > For example, what do you think would happen to the net tomorrow if uunet > were seized by its (hypothetical) creditors and sold off for parts, with > no notice? A lot of sites would become UUPSI customers. > We are already the victims of dangerous centralization, and there is no > one visible making sure the net is still well interconnected in case a > major player falls. Well, UUPSI is. > Telling leaf sites they may not become better connected worsens this > problem for all sites. Who's saying that? Not UUPSI. -- (peter@taronga.uucp.ferranti.com) `-_-' 'U`