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- From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
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- Subject: Re: problems with the UUCP maps--duplicate node names
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:10:33 GMT
- Article-I.D.: atlantis.jv21H8_45c
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- In article <H.8BlefaszZeQ@red.uucp> terry%red@lawton.lonestar.org writes:
- >This idea sounds good until you consider the amount of work involved. How many
- >sites are there?
-
- About 20714, by my count. Not that many, really. I estimate a third of
- these are bogus.
-
- > Each one of us placing a call on a map keeper. I guess it
- >could be automated. But then, so could checking for dupes.
-
- Duplicate entries are only a minor problem compared to the number
- of sites that have since disappeard, with no one to tell the map project
- that they left.
-
- >I for one am against renewing map addresses. Its like applying for the same
- >street address. Geese.
-
- It's not like that at all. When you move and you get a new street address,
- does your mail automatically all get forwarded there? Does it really get
- used for mail at all? At least in the US, most people use the phone book
- for addresses, not your county or postal records. Your analogy is thin.
-
- > 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.
-
- >Then of course you have the problem of an administative error where a whole
- >block of map addresses get screwed up.
-
- Where did this come from? What's to stop this from happening now?
- You're pulling arguments out of thin air.
-
- > I tell you, your proposal could become a night mare.
-
- I'll clue you in. It's already a nightmare.
-
- --Dave
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- System Administrator, Population Research Institute barr@pop.psu.edu
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