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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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