page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page) (01/08/87)
It was pointed out that my map entry in u.usa.ma.1 is rather old - over a year old, in fact. Nah, I said, can't be. I've SEEN some from pretty recent. So I looked through all of u.usa.ma.1 .. Yow! There are a lot of sites with old (read: bogus) map entries! Some look OK, some are surely wrong. I did not check other files besides u.usa.ma.1, so I don't know how widespread the problem is. u.usa.ma.1 should be considered suspect. All site admins everywhere should check your map entries. And rather than post a zillion correct map entries to news.config, let's just find the old ones, ok? It's true that ulowell is (correct as of a month ago) in the d.usa.ma.1 map, but I'm not convinced that people are using the d.* files as much as they should be (you should be, they don't hurt anything as long as you put them through pathalias with the u.* files). Note that this is for the Dec postings - I have not seen the Jan ones yet except for some att sites. ..Bob -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. ulowell!page, page@ulowell.CSNET
mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) (01/09/87)
If you have an updated version of your map entry, please mail it to uucpmap@cbosgd, don't post it here. Entries received very soon may make it into the January posting, others will get into the February posting. The AT&T maps that escaped from cbosgd in late December did so by mistake, that was not intended to be a map posting. They were identical to the previous posting. Mark