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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (rick)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Newsgroup vote counting: a proposed modifacation
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Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 07:59:55 EST
Article-I.D.: pcrat.419
Posted: Thu Nov 12 07:59:55 1987
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Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
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Summary: Some places will never have smart mailers

Some machines can't run smart mailers, because they can't run pathalias.
If a machine can't address more than 64K, there's no hope in crunching
the maps into something usable.  Small leaf nodes aren't likely to even
receive the maps, since they are so huge.  The answer to counting
votes cannot require that every site run a smart mailer unless the two
issues above are solved.  For that matter, I'm aware of lots of large
modes that don't get the maps (probably due to disk space).  And those
are at your preferred long distance carrier, in your favorite state
for rental condos!  You know what *THAT* means.

My site depends upon uunet to do its routing for the second reason.
And I still get bounced mail.

I'd suggest that if voting on a new group involves sending mail to
a lesser known site, that the proposed newsgroup creator find
somebody favorable to the proposal to collect votes for him/her on
a well known site.
-- 
	Rick Richardson, President, PC Research, Inc.
(201) 542-3734 (voice, nights)   OR   (201) 834-1378 (voice, days)
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