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From: bbh@whizz.uucp (Bud Hovell)
Newsgroups: news.config
Subject: Re: deleted UUCP sites
Message-ID: <991@whizz.uucp>
Date: 7 Jan 90 09:22:23 GMT
References: <4195@convex.UUCP> <30273@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com> <9575@samsung.samsung.com> <777@wang.UUCP>
Reply-To: bbh@whizz.UUCP (Bud Hovell,Home,6363000)
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In article <777@wang.UUCP> fitz@wang.UUCP (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
>warren@samsung.COM (Warren Lavallee) writes:
>> I think the UUCP map coordinators should require that the node exists,
>> before allowing an edge in a map entry.  Also, every so often they
>> should do consistency checks on all of their maps and take corrective
>> measures if they do not pass.
>
>I have to agree with this (which is a little hypocritical because there
>is a machine here at Wang that violates this, but what the heck).  When
>people publish connections to unmapped machines, it really raises the
>chance of getting 2 machines with the same name in different places

It also happened here. We filed a map for the name 'diana'. Guess what?
When our mail started disappearing, I checked and found that another
machine, unregistered, had been mentioned under that name in one of the
maps (still is, actually).

The response I got to my inquiry was, in effect, that the best thing for
us to do was change our name and refile a new map. When I asked why the
other site shouldn't be challenged to either file for the name or get
itself taken off the maps, I was told (authoritatively) that there was
concern about doing anything that might tend to reduce the number of
participating sites on the net.

Right. :-| We filed another map and dropped the issue. Jeesh.

The fix is simple and obvious: no map, no access. Period. Maps must be
updated formally at least once a year, and at any time major information
has changed. No mapped site will allow a new connection onto the net
until the administrator at the existing site assures that a map has been
filed for the new site, and that the new site agrees to conform to these
simple maintenance standards thereafter.

Hells bells, people, if your time has *any* value, why continue to waste
it be preserving a non-policy having zero redeeming social value? 
 
                                 Bud
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