Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!maynard!campbell
From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The death of USENET
Summary: "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
Message-ID: <1091@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 88 02:22:19 GMT
References: <7475@swan.ulowell.edu> <2645@rpp386.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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In article <2645@rpp386.UUCP> jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
<>USENET has been mortally wounded with the passing of ihnp4.

Not really:

	% grep ihnp4 /usr/lib/uucp/paths
	gateway	think!ihnp4!wcom!gateway!%s
	ihnp4	think!ihnp4!%s
	ihnp4.att.com	think!ihnp4!%s
	ilunix	think!ihnp4!ilunix!%s
	medstar	think!ihnp4!wcom!medstar!%s
	oberlin	think!ihnp4!oberlin!%s
	oberlin.edu	think!ihnp4!oberlin!%s
	ohare	think!ihnp4!ohare!%s
	wcom	think!ihnp4!wcom!%s
	% wc -l /usr/lib/uucp/paths
	11997

From here, out of nearly twelve thousand paths, only nine paths involve ihnp4;
two of these paths are ihnp4 itself, two are oberlin, and one (ilunix) appears
to be AT&T internal, which will continue to get mail.  So, only five sites out
of twelve thousand appear to be affected.  I suspect that ihnp4 could have
folded up its tent silently and no one would have noticed.

However, the people that blithely post and mail PC binaries are still dweebs.
-- 
Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Internet: campbell@maynard.bsw.com          120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109
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