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From: guardian@laidbak.UUCP (Harry Skelton)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Posting maps
Message-ID: <1193@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 06:25:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: laidbak.1193
Posted: Wed Oct 14 06:25:11 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Oct-87 01:51:24 EDT
References: <1645@culdev1.UUCP>
Reply-To: guardian@laidbak.UUCP (Harry Skelton(E))
Organization: LAI Chicago
Lines: 31
Keywords: newsite maps uucp usenet news
Summary: Please!

In article <1645@culdev1.UUCP> drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes:
>kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes:
>> p.s. I feel the same way about the the USENET maps.  Once every six
>>      months would be often enough, since new or changed map entries
>>      can be posted to news.config or news.newsite .
>
>On the other hand, if someone wants to work out a reasonable system
>where the changes are applied to the site's maps automatically, I'm
>all for it.
>

To Kyle: As new sites are up and running, many are either without the maps or
are new to USENET and want maps so they can find out who is where and conduct
the business of e-mail and news at top speed.

The biggest problem I have seen is when a site is activated, and the maps
were just posted to the net, it seems that no one is willing to supply the 
maps to the new sites.  I tell them to wait a month or two and it'll get 
posted soon enough.

Dale: I think if someone was to write a program to scan net.newsites for 
information, then that would solve your problem.  Otherwise I agree with
you, I'd rather have the full supply of sites rather than pick names out 
of the stack.

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