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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Duplicate site names
Message-ID: <277@fig.bbn.com>
Date: 28 Dec 87 18:54:21 GMT
References: <271@ontenv.UUCP> <7905@g.ms.uky.edu> <44208@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> <5055@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <12251@necntc.NEC.COM>
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Keywords: pathalias maps duplicates

In comp.mail.uucp (<12251@necntc.NEC.COM>), nemap@necntc.nec.com (New England Mapping) writes:
> I ask everyone who is choosing a new site name to check the maps
> prior to coming to a final decisoon.  Even in the fastidious case
> where you feel you have checked everything - the new site name may
> still be flagged for a few other reasons: 

This is a bit circular, isn't it?  Can't set up news without a feed,
can't pick up news without a name, can't guarantee a unique name without
the maps, can't get the maps without a feed...

And even if the loop is opened (by getting the nice, friendly, overworked
admin on my feed to check for me "unh, bilbo is taken?  How about frodo?
Oh, could you try sam?  What about nice -- no, n-i-c-e, named after the
place in France, not the relavitve"), there's still a timelag.  Jeff,
you could turn the maps requests around in thirty minutes, but so what?
It's useless until the maps are sent out to the entire world and everyone
has run them through uuhosts or whatever they use.

Executive summary:  the current system is buggy.
	/r$
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