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From: rob@briar.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Database of all net sites
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Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 20:39:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 10 20:39:38 1987
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Reply-To: rob@briar.philips.com.UUCP (Rob Robertson)
Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY
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Keywords: netsites, Database
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In article <3339@cbosgd.ATT.COM> mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes:
>(3) The internal details of a company are nobody's business but that
>company.  AT&T in particular does not want it's internal list of system
>administrators published to the outside; it considers that information
>very proprietary, and I've been told to stop sending it out.

Why?  Are they ashamed of them. :-)

There are a few uses of the map, which can't be substituted by the
domain system.  The first is if I'm looking for a uucp connection.
It provides a nice geographical way of finding a connection.
The second is finding out the system manager of a system.  We recently
changed our phone number here at philabs, and we had to phone EVERYONE
up and tell them, the maps provided the data.  

I'm not arguing for or against them just stating what will disappear.

rob