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From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Cut off AT&T? (Was: The death of USENET)
Summary: I agree,so how about some help setting up the maps?
Message-ID: <331@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 16:33:12 GMT
References: <10373@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <27.UUL1.3#935@aocgl.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA
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In article <27.UUL1.3#935@aocgl.UUCP> tmanos@aocgl.UUCP (Theodore W. Manos) writes:

[deleted a lot of article suggested that if AT&T refuses to route non-AT&T
 mail, then all other sites should refuse to route AT&T mail.]

>...  I don't think that it is fair for AT&T to expect non-AT&T
>sites to forward their mail, if they won't do the same for others.  On
>the other hand, I don't think that it is fair to expect AT&T to have to
>shoulder the very heavy burden that has been placed on them for some
>time now, just because they happen to be well connected and have smart
>routers.  People at non-AT&T sites should make a CONCERTED EFFORT to
>both a) find *some* paths that don't route via AT&T, and b) install
>their *own* smart routers (and keep *current* UUCP maps :-) ).

>-Ted
>Ted Manos   tmanos@aocgl.{COM,UUCP,UU.NET}  or ...!{uunet,mcdchg}!aocgl!tmanos

I agree with Ted, and I'm glad somebody finally said it.  But now for
some "real" news.admin stuff...

I'm trying to do b) above. I have pathalias, smail, uuhosts, and uumail
and while I understand basically what they all do, I've been unable to
locate a installation proceedure for the "correct" or "normal" way of
setting it all up.   I need some help from a "real" news admin to
figure out what the appropriate arrangement of the data-base files are
and setting up the tools to parse the map info from the net and keep the
maps up to date.  Can any of you experts out there lend a hand?   Via E-mail,
of course.  Thank you.  I'm serious; I really don't know what I'm doing.
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