Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!husc6!bbn!bbn.com!rsalz From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Stuck with .UUCP forever? Message-ID: <1780@fig.bbn.com> Date: 5 Jun 89 13:39:50 GMT References: <444@logicon.arpa> <56904@uunet.UU.NET> <14379@bfmny0.UUCP> Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation Lines: 22 In article <56904@uunet.UU.NET> rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes: >The trick is finding someone stupid enough to be willing to be the >uucp forwarder for 15,000 uucp hosts. In <14379@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes: >Is there no way under the current/proposed scheme to share the >forwarding work load in an organized way? No. Under the domain system, you can basically say one of two things: 1. Give *.UUCP mail to me 2. Give a.UUCP, b.UUCP, c.UUCP, d.UUCP, etc., mail to me No one site is willing to forward for the world, so choice 1 is out. (Nor is it feasible for them to take in all the load then hand it off helper sites -- that's the same thing as routing to the final destination.) No five sites are going to maintain 3000 lines of data -- but it would be interesting to see if the current system could handle 15,000 flat-namespace records. :-) /rich $alz -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net. Use a domain-based address or give alternate paths, or you may lose out.