bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) (06/13/89)
in message <1021@twwells.uucp> I wrote: > (PS to South Florida admins: I have three other people who have > stated tentative willingness to help foot the bill. If there are any > others interested, let me know. The purpose of this is to give us > some redundancy: we really only have one link, uflorida [thanks > guys!], for news and when that goes we're stuck. Remember the recent > outages?) It has come to my attention that this looks like I'm cutting down the guys at novavax. This was not my intention. The guys there are doing a great job, feeding all of South Florida, and have established themselves as the e-mail hub for the area. Almost all news going into the net down here comes from novavax; much of the mail also comes through their site. Unfortunately, there are very few other routes into the area and none of them, as far as I know, are high-volume links like the novavax-uflorida one. When the inevitable happens and something goes wrong, the newsfeed and mail get delayed. It would be very nice if there were another route for news coming into the area. It would also be nice to have another mail route to uunet so that hcx1 doesn't end up having to take all the local mail destined for uunet and points beyond. (Before I fudged my mail maps, almost all mail out of the area either went novavax!uflorida or novavax!hcx1!uunet.) Since I have an interest in keeping the flow of mail and news even, I decided to do something about it: I decided to try to set up another link, to uunet, through which I would take a feed and distribute it to anyone who wants it. I would also publish a map entry showing the route so that anyone who wanted to could send mail through the link. Since I'm not rich and can't afford to run a feed through my uunet link, I've been collecting information about costs and looking for additional sponsors. I'm truly sorry that my verbal clumsiness while doing that caused the upset it did. I hope that the concerned parties have come to understand what I'm trying to accomplish and that I'm not trying to denigrate anyone. --- Bill { uunet | novavax } !twwells!bill bill@twwells.com