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From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Posting maps
Message-ID: <428@hqda-ai.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 14:20:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: hqda-ai.428
Posted: Thu Oct 15 14:20:16 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 08:28:06 EDT
References: <1645@culdev1.UUCP> <1193@laidbak.UUCP>
Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon
Lines: 22
Keywords: newsite maps uucp usenet news
Summary: New sites do not need maps immediately

In article <1193@laidbak.UUCP>, guardian@laidbak.UUCP (Harry Skelton) writes:
> 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.

     New sites on the net do not need the maps.  They *do* need
smail, which is much smaller (only 170k).  I've had no trouble
installing smail (BSD system with sendmail, uucp links).  The new
site designates one of it's uucp neighbors as it's mail relay,
giving that site's name to smail as SMARTHOST.  All mail for which
smail cannot find a path (that's all mail, since they don't yet
have maps) is punted to the relay.  Presumably, the relay has been
on the net for a while, and does have the maps.

     I should point out that the above strategy is applicable to
almost every site.  Smail/pathalias were designed so that most
sites would need only local routing information, plus paths to a
few higher-echelon gateways.
-- 
David S. Hayes, The Merlin of Avalon	PhoneNet:  (202) 694-6900
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