Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!vuwcomp!duncan
From: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Map expiration dates
Message-ID: <13238@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 1 Feb 88 04:29:16 GMT
References: <7815@rutgers.rutgers.edu> <13226@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1977@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan)
Organization: Comp Sci, Victoria Univ, Wellington, New Zealand
Lines: 22
Summary: Stripped maps may not save that much

In article <1977@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>
>Stripped maps (all the lines beginning with # missing) posted every
>week or so.

I checked out the map files that we have here on comp.vuw.ac.nz (which being as
far away from the rest of the world as we are, may not be the most up to date),
and found that there were approx 1.3Mb of lines with comments out of a total of
1.7Mb.  So posting the maps with comments stripped, once per week would still
result in volume of approximately 1.6Mb per month, with worse turnaround
than we get with the UUCP projects current posting scheme.

> This is all you need for pathalias.

True.  But it ignores the other useful info that should be updated as well
(contact person, latitude/longitude if you happen to live on a fault line
like we do here in Wellington :-)

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Duncan

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