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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
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Subject: Re: Results of mod.map Expiration Poll
Message-ID: <1849@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 13:11:31 EST
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Thank you, Gordon, for taking the time to run this survey.

It seems to me that the results are not decisive, and in fact,
as someone pointed out, perhaps a vote isn't the thing to do
here anyway.  The reason I say this is that it seems that people
who would vote are smart enough to be able to override the default
if they are unhappy with it.  The real question is: what should the
naive sites who don't take any special measures get as default behavior?

One possible answer is that a naive site isn't running uuhosts, so when
they suddenly find out that the map exists, they should be able to go
get it from mod.map without having to wait a month for it, or having to
ask someone else to ship it.  (I get several requests per month for a
copy of the map; I refer these folks to mod.map and most of them seem
satisfied, except for the folks in Missouri that are downstream of some
kind of problem - we're working on this one.)

Another possible answer is that such naive sites that are unaware of the
map shouldn't have their disk space filled up with it for any longer than
the default.

For now I'll leave the expiration at 30 days, but I'm open to opinions,
and it's easy to change.

	Mark