Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!apple!bionet!lear From: lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: A bigger problem (was: Mail survey #1) Message-ID: Date: 5 Sep 88 23:53:30 GMT References: <4740@b-tech.UUCP> <4747@b-tech.UUCP> <4748@b-tech.UUCP> <3703@rayssd.ray.com> <4750@b-tech.UUCP> <3710@rayssd.ray.com> <4753@b-tech.UUCP> <3722@rayssd.ray.com> Organization: Natl Computer Resource for Mol. Biologists Lines: 16 To: gmp@rayssd.RAY.COM Greg: What you are saying is that there are two sources of the same information, and they tend to lose sync with each other quite often. The first source is what is actually the case, and the second is what is in the map entries. Perhaps the best way to irradicate this dichotomy is to make a program that would generate pathalias entries for each system, based on UUCP connections listed in an L.sys file, and maybe a little extra information. Stick that program in cron and let it run once a month (once a week if you're an active site, once a day if you happen to be uunet ;-). Eliot -- Eliot Lear [lear@net.bio.net]