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From: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Puting routes for other systems' connections in your map
Summary: I agree, given two special cases
Message-ID: <976@ditka.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 89 07:11:27 GMT
References: <270@verdix.verdix.com>
Reply-To: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Organization: Inaction Central, Los Alamos, New Mexico
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In article <270@verdix.verdix.com> nomad@verdix.com (Lee Damon) writes:
>In looking through the maps I notice that a lot of people are posting
>things like:
>
>#N	foo
>[deleted]
>bar	bloviy(DEDICATED), blivit(EVENING)
>
>Now, I realize that things are supposed to look like this, but in foo's
>map?  This means that foo is advertising a link between bar and ...

>What do you think?

With two exceptions, I think this practice is wrong.  First special
case is if foo and bar are at the same site and under common admin-
istration.  Perhaps the #N line should reflect this by listing both
machines, e.g. "#N foo, bar".

The other case is for a new link when the postmaster at the other
site is a bit slow about updating his/her map entry.  For example,
I set up a link with sleepy, and notice several months later that
sleepy's map entry hasn't been updated yet.  I feel justified in
adding

    sleepy	ditka(DEMAND)

to ditka's map entry, assuming we agreed to a DEMAND link in that
direction.  As soon as I noticed that sleepy's entry has been
updated, I'd delete the line from ditka's entry.

>Should this kind of thing be allowed?

Except for the two cases I mention above, no.

>Should the mapping project paople (or what's left of 'em) delete
>this from submitted maps (or just bounce them back)?

It seems appropriate that they take some action.

>nomad (the nasty nit-picker)

Good to see I'm not alone.  :-)

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