Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!lear From: lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Grumpy != grumpy Message-ID: Date: 11 Nov 88 05:55:07 GMT References: <398@ditka.UUCP> <42300005@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> <1689@edison.GE.COM> <12881@ncoast.UUCP> Organization: Natl Computer Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 14 My article comes across a little harsh, so let me rephrase it a little better. The point is that I (and a lot of other people, I think) view the uucp maps as a form of backward compatability for sites that do not use domains. (Are there any sites that cannot have domain names for one reason or another?) In any event, like all obsolete technology, there will probably come a time when there are so few sites using the maps that it will not be cost effective for people to maintain the software. This point in time is quite a ways away, but I have to believe it is there. -- Eliot Lear [lear@net.bio.net]