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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Maxwell House Daemon)
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Subject: Re: The USENET Backbone (Last changed: 10 December 1987)
Message-ID: <14223@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 88 16:41:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: oddjob.14223
Posted: Fri Jan  8 11:41:53 1988
References: <14203@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> <246@jc3b21.UUCP>
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In article <246@jc3b21.UUCP> jra@jc3b21.UUCP (Jay R. Ashworth) writes:

) Mr. Crawford, do you have *any* vague notion of how much mail this man
) gets?  ...

If he gets so much mail that he can't read it all or can't remember
it all then let him not say things like "next time send mail instead"!

) Come on, Matt, the guy's mailbox is probably as big as your kernel.

My own inbox today is twice as large as my kernel, and all my saved
mail together is 39 times as large as the kernel.  So what?  I think
Gene speaks for himself better than you do for him.

By the way, among the 16 Megs of mail I found the mail I referred to
in my second inflammatory message on the subject.  At the time it was
written, the backbone maps were posted to mod.map.
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To: ihnp4!gatech!spaf
Phone: +1 312 702 8207
Subject: Re: The USENET Backbone (Last changed: 11 January 1987)
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 87 17:08:30 CST

Gene,

Two comments:  Could you wrap the backbone postings into a
simple shar package?  I and, I suppose, others run all mod.map
articles through an unshar program which looks for plausible and
safe shell commands.  I get mail from it complaining about the
"backbone" articles.

The other thing is, what is this "faline" shown as part of the
backbone?  It's not in the map anywhere.  And why is Ulysses a
backbone site when its map entry lists no news neighbors?  I
guess some info is just inconsistent.

Say, if the links ihnp4 -- gargoyle -- oddjob -- hao are all
full-service (except for talk.*), low-delay links, are gargoyle
and oddjob then backbone sites?  Do we get robes for the cabal
meetings?  (:-) I have just created a new link to hao (and am
working on one to the east coast) to reduce Chicago's dependence
on poor old ihnp4.  Together gargoyle and oddjob feed about 8
other Chicago-area sites.
				Matt
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