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From: ggere@csi.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: senduuname (was: patch #5 for 2.11 news src)
Message-ID: <1079@csi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 13:08:18 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 13 13:08:18 1987
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Reply-To: ggere@csi.UUCP (Gary M. Gere)
Organization: Communications Solutions Inc., San Jose, Ca
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In article <43150@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes:
>The correct thing to do would be to add a new control message to
>do a new task, Not mutate an old one to do what you want.
>
>
>---rick

Fine. Then I vote we add such a new control message. I modified our 2.10 news a
long time ago to return the latest UUCP map entry in response to the senduuname
control message, and did the same when we upgraded to 2.11 news.

This facility does provide the means to gather uucp site connection information
and I believe it is useful now and could be much more so in cases such as
gathering uucp site information for sites with out of date maps.

I too have had difficulty getting our map update into Map Central. A little
automation might allow for the automagic collection of maps at appropriate
times and remove some burden from the map maintainer volunteers.
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