Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!reed!horton
From: horton@reed.UUCP (Nike Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Why the maps cannot be accurate
Message-ID: <10460@reed.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 88 20:39:08 GMT
References: <1043@vsi1.UUCP>
Reply-To: horton@reed.UUCP (Nike Horton)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <1043@vsi1.UUCP> lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes:
>o Most maps are distributed only once a month.
>
>o There is another delay from when a updated entry is sent to a map
>  coordinater until it is posted of up to another month.
>

This certainly was true as recently as a year ago, but things have changed.
I am the pathalias map coordinator for the middle atlantic states, and
we now send out updates as soon as we get them.  They are still funneled
through a central site (Rutgers) but they are sent out as often as there are
changes.  I usually send things new maps for my volatile states (NJ, MD, VA)
twice a week.  I find that there is about a ten day turnaround time from
the update being submitted by the administrator to the map reaching me here
at Reed.  Not perfect, but not bad.  

>
>When you add to that situations, like right now, where u.usa.ca.6 has
>not been posted since July, you have even more inaccuracies in the maps.

I don't know how often this has been updated, but my most recent copy is
dated September 7, 1988.
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Nike Horton       
horton@reed.uucp 	   horton@harvard.harvard.edu