Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!uwmacc!uwspan!root From: root@uwspan.UUCP (John Plocher) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Newsgroup vote counting: a proposed modifacation Message-ID: <183@uwspan.UUCP> Date: Sat, 14-Nov-87 03:00:54 EST Article-I.D.: uwspan.183 Posted: Sat Nov 14 03:00:54 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 16:41:18 EST References: <4965@oberon.USC.EDU> <6695@ut-ngp.UUCP> <1578@haddock.ISC.COM> <171@uwspan.UUCP> <751@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU> <419@pcrat.UUCP> Sender: root@uwspan.UUCP Reply-To: root@uwspan.UUCP (John Plocher) Followup-To: news.misc Distribution: na Organization: UW-Madison Spanish Dept Lines: 52 +---- rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes in <419@pcrat.UUCP> ---- 1 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 2 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. +---- Tanj! Sorry for being slightly vulgar, but this is a load of crap! Count 1: Can't run smart mailers and/or pathalias. I am running smail2.5 and the latest pathalias (9?) on a Microport 286 box with NO problems. The two also work on SCO Xenix. Surely this is what you mean when you say "If a machine can't address more than 64k" :-). And if I had 3 megs of free disk space which I could justify for it, I would use the full uucp map info. As it is, I can't justify the space usage, so I do something different. This leads into the second issue: not using the huge map info. The solution here is to *NOT USE ALL THE MAP INFO*. My machines only use the Wisconsin map info files, and define smart-host to be a well connected site nearby which DOES run a smart mailer with ALL the map info. You could use uunet. This is what I use for my pathalias input: "smart-host = LOCALuucpHOSTwhichUSESallTHEmapINFO" + + + + I figure that since ALL my non-wisconsin mail will end up going thru the smart-host machine anyways, it might as well do the routing for me. BE SURE you let the SA of your smart-host what you are doing so they aren't rudely supprised at a later date. :-) -- Email to unix-at-request@uwspan with questions about the newsgroup unix-at, otherwise mail to unix-at@uwspan with a Subject containing one of: 386 286 Bug Source Merge or "Send Buglist" (Bangpath: rutgers!uwvax!uwspan!unix-at & rutgers!uwvax!uwspan!unix-at-request)