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From: mat@emcard.UUCP (Mat Waites)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Another argument against REROUTE
Message-ID: <5971@emcard.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 88 17:20:59 GMT
References: <350@ditka.UUCP>
Reply-To: mat@emcard.UUCP (Mat Waites)
Organization: Emory University Cardiac Data Bank
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In article <350@ditka.UUCP> kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) writes:
}Haven't seen this argument yet ... ditka recently moved to New
}Mexico from Pittsburgh, and several ex-local links were pulled
}at that time.  I dutifully sent in an updated map entry (sev-
}eral, actually) but the published maps still haven't been up-
}dated.

[ some beefing deleted ]

}The result is several messages that are currently bouncing
}back and forth between here and Atlanta.  I guess I'll have
}to mark gatech as dead along with rutgers and the others
}(assuming gatech is indeed the problem).

Why don't the "backbone" sites periodically publish the names and
phone numbers of their news/uucp/net admins so that people can just
call them instead of just theorizing about what is going on.

Is there a measureable need for re-routing at any sites that are not
backbone? (I really don't know)

Mat

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