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- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Any easy way to filter this type of UUCP traffic?
- Message-ID: <4003@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 08:22:10 GMT
- References: <3965@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> <HER8MAE@heaven7.in-berlin.de> <1992Nov14.001910.25570@blilly.UUCP>
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- In article <1992Nov14.001910.25570@blilly.UUCP> lilb@sony.compuserve.com writes:
- >In article <HER8MAE@heaven7.in-berlin.de> martini@heaven7.in-berlin.de (Martin P. Ibert) wrote:
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- >>And, as you can see, it is counterproductive to advertise a link as "merely"
- >>DEAD when it would be a hundred times DEAD if you didn't.
-
- >Whether or not it is ``counterproductive'' depends on your
- >perception of why the maps exist; to provide an accurate model
- >for UUCP network connectivity or to intentionally provide a
- >distorted view of the UUCP network.
-
- Have you ever thought of making a living making up referendum questions?
- Is this biased or what?
-
- When did you stop beating your wife?
-
- You haven't established that it *is* distorted. I contend that
- explicitly marking a non-existant link as 100*DEAD just because
- there's a link in the other direction is the distortion.
-
- Not all links are bidirectional, or eligible for routing in one
- direction or the other. Leaving the backlink *implicit* makes no
- difference to pathalias *now*, but does make it easier to make sure
- that the link goes away totally when the forward link is dropped.
-
- And it also means that you can find it with pathalias -vv.
-
- >Moreover, nothing prevents one from using a ``cost'' of
- >(DEAD*100), etc.; indeed, the maps already contain similar
- >constructs.
-
- Except that now it'll take two people to delete it instead of one.
-
- Bruce is really complaining about systems that are reachable *ONLY*
- by implicit backlink. Those sites *should* be hunted down and swatted.
- But this doesn't mean that implicit DEADs are bad in all situations.
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