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- From: anton@analsyn.gts.org (Anton J Aylward)
- Subject: Re: problems with the UUCP maps--duplicate node names
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.140405.14112@analsyn.gts.org>
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- Organization: ASCI: UNIX Database and Communications
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- References: <jv21H8_45c@atlantis.psu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:04:05 GMT
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- In the article (<jv21H8_45c@atlantis.psu.edu>) David Barr (barr@pop.psu.edu) posted to comp.mail.uucp:
- : In article <H.8BlefaszZeQ@red.uucp> terry%red@lawton.lonestar.org writes:
-
- : > I don't even have to renew my drivers license more
- : >than once every five years.
-
- : So? And how accurate is the information on your driver's license? My
- : current driver's license has had my address wrong for the majority of
- : the time I've had it. In fact, I've gone through at least 4 address
- : changes during its lifetime. Good thing I don't have to trust the
- : information on my driver's license for my mail.
-
- In some parts of the world, like here in Ontario, you are legally
- required to notify the appropriate authorieis when you change address so
- you license can be updated.
-
- However its not a fair analogy. You don't have to notify the licencicng
- authorities if you decide to stop driving and take the bus instead.
-
- I'm in favour of a time-out period.
- The administrators could just as well post reminders - like I get a
- reminder to renew my license and plate sticker...
-
- And mailing the reminder will see if it bounces and so give a strong
- hint as to whether the site is around.
-
- The other approach is one of 'mutual recognition of coresponsibility' to
- use the old phrase from the '60s. Keep YOUR maps acutrate and resubmit
- when a site you connect to goes away. The regional administrator can -
- our does he tells me - run pathalias to see what is unreachable.
- High probability of site that is either a typo or has no connections
- 'cos its gone away and everyone else has been diligent.
-
-
- --
- Anton J Aylward
- "The body politic is swerving from left to right and right to
- left looking for quick fixes for systemic problems."
- - Paul Palango, Journalist, ex The Globe and Mail
-