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From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: sites with bad #L fields in map entry
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Date: Fri, 8-May-87 12:53:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  8 12:53:22 1987
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Brian Reid sez:

>The following sites have illegal formats or bad data in their #L fields. I
>have reported this several times to cbosgd!uucpmap, but it they gets
>fixed. Maybe by posting it somebody will actually make changes. I have
>software that makes geographically correct maps of USENET, but sites with bad
>#L fields lose out.

> (list deleted for brevity's sake)

Well, if you spent two or three lines describing the correct format it
just might get done.  Not even a "RTFM" is appropriate if this is that
simple and that important.  I'd describe the format myself (instead of
bitching about it) but I don't know what it is.

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