Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!vixie
From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Advertising sites you drop (was: A bigger problem)
Message-ID: <8@jove.dec.com>
Date: 7 Oct 88 00:08:17 GMT
References: <800@bacchus.dec.com> <3283@edm.UUCP>
Organization: DEC Western Research Lab
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From article <800@bacchus.dec.com>, by vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie):
> I don't wish to be required to [...] Tell the UUCP Project about it [...]

In article <3283@edm.UUCP> rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) writes:
# [...] 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).

I quite agree.  The ideal is to send in a new map entry _before_ you drop
a popular connection.  Sometimes you can't, like when a neighbor's modem
numbers are suddenly disconnected and you can't reach them, but otherwise...
-- 
Paul Vixie
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