[comp.mail.uucp] Advertising sites you drop

vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) (10/07/88)

From article <800@bacchus.dec.com>, by vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie):
> I don't wish to be required to [...] Tell the UUCP Project about it [...]

In article <3283@edm.UUCP> rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) writes:
# [...] when you stop feeding a site, or know that you soon will, you should
# publish a new map with that site removed ASAR! (As Soon As Reasonable).

I quite agree.  The ideal is to send in a new map entry _before_ you drop
a popular connection.  Sometimes you can't, like when a neighbor's modem
numbers are suddenly disconnected and you can't reach them, but otherwise...
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