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- From: bruce@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM (Bruce Lilly)
- Subject: Re: Any easy way to filter this type of UUCP traffic?
- References: <HER8MAE@heaven7.in-berlin.de> <1992Nov14.001910.25570@blilly.UUCP> <4003@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
- Organization: Bruce Lilly
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 17:38:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.173829.1763@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM>
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- In article <4003@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) wrote:
- >
- >And it also means that you can find it with pathalias -vv.
-
- pathalias -vv only reports backlinks which are necessary for it
- to assume are valid links in order to reach some destination.
- Not all missing links (e.g. optigfx <- ucsd) are reported.
-
- >Bruce is really complaining about [...]
-
- Don't assume.
-
- >[...] systems that are reachable *ONLY*
- >by implicit backlink. Those sites *should* be hunted down and swatted.
-
- Those are the ones reported by pathalias. Last time I ran it
- here, it listed well over 1400 such links.
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