Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!linus!heart-of-gold!jc From: jc@heart-of-gold (John M Chambers) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Rerouting considered GOOD Message-ID: <162@heart-of-gold> Date: 4 Nov 88 18:01:39 GMT References: <1988Oct14.111343.27064@ateng.ateng.com> <297@lakart.UUCP> <15@gnome6.pa.dec.com> Organization: Mitre Corp, Bedford, MA, USA Lines: 29 > # Problems may arise and persist without the admin's knowledge. In the > # absence of foreknowledge, the maps will never be accurate. > > The maps could accurately reflect the territory, with instantaneous all-points > updates which were never mistaken and which tracked broken UUCP connections > hour by hour -- It's worse than that. Suppose I, as a totally conscientious system admin (:-), discover that all my mail links are down, and I can't get them fixed right now for some obscure reason or other. So I go and update my uucp.map file, and try to send it off. Ooops! It just sits there, because the mail links are down. If you know a way that I can do what is demanded of me in this situation, I'd sure like to know about it. (Perhaps the same technique could be used to keep my users happy when the system is down. ;-) > -- and rerouting would STILL be a bad idea. "Bad" as in morally incorrect, as > well as simply wrong-headed with overtones of fascism and stupidity. No, it's not fascism. I think the term is "Pollyanism". There are many people who act as if they truly believed that this is the best of all possible worlds. And in an election year, yet. -- From: John Chambers From ...!linus!!heart-of-gold!jc (John Chambers) Phone 617/217-7780 [Send flames; they keep it cool in this lab :-]