lyndon@nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) (11/04/88)
With the demise of the backbone, what is the status of the former group of sites that maintained aliases for the moderated groups? Did they die with the backbone? If so, what is the future of moderated groups to be when these aliases start getting out of date?
vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) (11/04/88)
# With the demise of the backbone, what is the status of the former # group of sites that maintained aliases for the moderated groups? # # Did they die with the backbone? If so, what is the future of # moderated groups to be when these aliases start getting out # of date? Nope. Spaf still maintains the list of group -> mailling address translations and still mails it out to approximately the same group of sites. He also sends out the "how to construct a mailpaths file" article every month or so, which includes a list of the sites he mails the aliases to. Decwrl is on that list, which is how I know all of this... Whichever site you've been using for "backbone" in your mailpaths file will continue to work even though the name "backbone" is somewhat meaningless.. -- Paul Vixie Work: vixie@decwrl.dec.com decwrl!vixie +1 415 853 6600 Play: paul@vixie.sf.ca.us vixie!paul +1 415 864 7013
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (11/05/88)
In article <10519@ncc.Nexus.CA> lyndon@nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: >With the demise of the backbone, what is the status of the former >group of sites that maintained aliases for the moderated groups? >Did they die with the backbone? ... Actually, there has never been a one-to-one correspondence between the backbone and the alias sites, despite the ill-advised use of BACKBONE as the name for them in some software. -- The Earth is our mother. | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology Our nine months are up. |uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bill Wisner) (11/05/88)
>Whichever site you've been using for "backbone" in your mailpaths file will >continue to work even though the name "backbone" is somewhat meaningless.. Just think of the alternative: well-connected-site %s