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Article #635Re: European Electronic Mail Directory Available
From: Piet Beertema
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1989 11:23
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1989 11:23
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During my years in the States I used the directory unetmap as a useful tool. I prefer that mcvax keeps hands off this newsgroup and send the monthly maps on the net. NO! This is Europe, not the States. And this is EUnet, where things are organised vastly different and in a much more structured way than the anarchistic uucp network setup in the States. Since many years already the EUnet backbones (there is no equivalent for that in the US) provide full routing, based on up-to-date (on a DAILY basis!) routing information. That's something that can NEVER be provided by monthly map postings. The backbone routing has proved to work very good; iff we were to ever post the maps in Europe, all backbones would immediately disable explicit user-provided routing to avoid old, long and clumsy paths leading to undeliverable and bounced mails, wasting network bandwidth and to screwing up the EUnet accounting. -- Opinions expressed above reflect those of my employer, except when they don't. Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam (piet@cwi.nl)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 164d81,62336959de3a6e76,start X-Google-Attributes: gid164d81,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1989-03-24 13:31:56 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcvax!piet From: piet@cwi.nl (Piet Beertema) Newsgroups: eunet.followup Subject: Re: European Electronic Mail Directory Available Message-ID: <847@sering.cwi.nl> Date: 22 Mar 89 11:23:53 GMT References: <837@sering.cwi.nl> <499@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> Distribution: eunet Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 23 Posted: Wed Mar 22 12:23:53 1989