Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!pleasant
From: pleasant@rutgers.rutgers.edu (Mel Pleasant)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Unpacking comp.mail.maps files
Message-ID: <8283@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 88 23:39:24 GMT
References: <1059@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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To: ron@vsedev.VSE.COM

In article <1059@vsedev.VSE.COM> ron@vsedev.VSE.COM (Ron Flax) writes:

> This is really a query to determine the best, if there is one, way to
> unpack comp.mail.maps files, since they seem to come in every day or
> so now.
> 
> I used to simply type '1000-1050w | (cd /v/hostnames/map; unshar)' at
> rn when the maps came in once a month or so... but now since the
> distribution is split across the entire month, this is really a pain!
> Plus the fact that I can't seem to figure out when the damned cut off
> is :-)

FLAME ON:

	Click your heals and repeat three times after me:

	there is no `damned cutoff'

	There is no `damned cutoff'

	*THERE* *IS* *NO* `*DAMNED* *CUTOFF*'

I've answered this a couple of times.  There was even an announcement
about this.  Once again, in an effort to turn map updates around
quickly, we now post the map files as we receive new entries and
updates.  There is no such thing as a monthly posting anymore.  There
is no such thing as a DONE file anymore.  I kid you not.  Really!!!
Truly!!!  Gone for good (hopefully) are these.  Once a month we post
every file that has not been posted, due to not being updated, in the
last 30 days.  This guarantees that a new site will eventually receive
all of the files.

The official software that will help you receive and use these files
are Bnews 2.11 (patch #14), pathalias version 9, and uuhosts.  All can
be had by writing to Rich Salz (salz@pineapple.bbn.com).  If you
choose to use other software to deal with the postings, you're on your
own.  I don't want to get into things like guaranteeing that a certain
string will appear a certain way everytime.  The only guarantees I'd
like to make is that the software mentioned above does the job.
That's it.  That's all.

 :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)

FLAME OFF:


A couple of folks have sent/posted suggestions about posting shortened
versions of our updates.  I haven't responded to any of these yet
because I've been rather busy.  However, I'd like to say that I like
the idea of using `ar' and posting map entries individually.  Besides
the bashing the net would take if/when a switchover to this mode
occurred, does any see any problems with this type of setup?
-- 

                                  Mel Pleasant
 {backbone}!rutgers!pleasant   pleasant@rutgers.edu     mpleasant@zodiac.bitnet