Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: news.newsites Subject: Re: Map addition for u.usa.ny.1, a new site: "entire". Message-ID: <1788@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: 31 Dec 87 19:29:44 GMT References: <3121@entire.xerox.com> <1777@epimass.EPI.COM> <2613@killer.UUCP> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 34 Keywords: new site, map approval: working In article <1777@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes: >>Sorry, but we can't very well have every PC in the world on the UUCP >>map. In article <2613@killer.UUCP> billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes: >What an incredibly obnoxious statement. The mere fact that someone runs UNIX >on a small computer condemns them forever to forego representation in the >UUCP map? What's next? Shall we banish the small 68000 boxes? Maybe we can >even burn a few witches while we're at it, oh, what fun. Bill, I'm sorry you took offense. But the UUCP map is already too big for PCs to deal with. The whole purpose of domainism is to reduce the size of the UUCP map, even as the net grows. The person who posted the map entry indicated that he was or soon would be a member of the .xerox.com domain. So there's no reason for the UUCP map to contain information on little computers owned by big organizations. As for little computers owned by individuals: if UUPC becomes wildly popular, we're stll going to run up against a wall at some point where we can't have everybody on the map. Since the domain registration fee was instituted, I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop (that is, a fee for having a site appear in the map). Unfortunately, the fee currently goes to the wrong people, since the major expense generated by sites appearing on the UUCP map is the cost of sending comp.mail.maps around the world. Seems like some of the fees should subsidize uunet and the European backbone; it's hard to see how to distribute revenue to someone else. -- - Joe Buck {uunet,ucbvax,sun,decwrl,}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck Old internet mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net