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From: mml@magnus.UUCP (Mike Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: A bigger problem (was: Mail survey #1)
Message-ID: <318@magnus.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 05:37:23 GMT
References: <800@bacchus.dec.com> <3283@edm.UUCP>
Reply-To: mml@magnus.UUCP (Mike Levin)
Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
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In article <3283@edm.UUCP> rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) writes:
>
>I agree that people shouldn't be forced to publish private sites, but
>they SHOULD be willing to do is publish the sites that you DON'T connect
>to.  More precisely: when you stop feeding a site, or know that you soon
>will, you should publish a new map with that site removed ASAR! (As Soon
>As Reasonable).
>
	A slight twist to your idea, Stephen.  What if a newsgroup was
setup (probably should be moderated) for map changes-  i.e.  ONLY when
a site DISCONNECTS somebody or is experiencing serious connection
problems, the SA posts (to this new group) an updated map.  Then, if some
really clever person out there could write a map patcher, the new info
could be applied as a patch to the appropriate map.  Thus, the info would
be as UTDAP (Up To Date As Possible) at all times.

	I wonder if somebody could standardize on a map update program.  I
use a shell script which is run from cron, whose job it is to pull a copy
of any new maps that came in, unshar it, and stick it into my maps directory.
What if this was improved to where it kept a simple DB of the entire uucp
universe, and the whole process was standardized/optimized.  I think that
could be made to work REALLY WELL! !

	I wonder if it will rain tomorrow????


					Mike Levin

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