Subj : alternate routing chart
To   : Foxy Ferguson
From : Carl Austin Bennett
Date : Wed Apr 18 2001 05:13 am

 CAB> Nothing says where that file is to originate and Foxy
 CAB> herself has been encouraging those who'd expressed concerns
 CAB> to create their own list for some time now.

 FF> ... but not to inflict their lists on everybody else, Carl.

Odd choice of words, "inflict".

I could see using words like that if top-level hubs or even the whole matrix 
were being omitted for political reasons. I could also see using words like 
that if a listkeeper were to advertise a false route (to direct California mail 
to New York, for instance) or threaten an NEC with a "No route found" listing 
for having objected to these errors.

However if there's useful information in the list, even if it consists of 
corrections and updates to incorrect info elsewhere, it serves its purpose.

No point in creating a list unless sysops can get hold of a copy and use it.

 FF> and, yes, there are restrictions on who can hatch what and in which FDN

It's routing info which was hatched in an FDN for routing info by an REC.

That's what the area's there for. Don't like it? Too bad.

If you don't want to read messages about m00se, don't link to MOOSECHAT; if you 
don't want to see routing info, don't link to Z1_REC.

 FF> Sorry that your REC was operating on ancient information that hasn't 
 FF> had a chance to be corrected. But now that you've pointed out that little 
 FF> item in such a painful and disrespectful fashion, I feel sure that it can 
 FF> be fixed. Maybe not yesterday. Maybe not today. But one day.

No one owes anyone any respect. Want some? Earn some.

As for this so-called "ancient information", it's still very much current.

That you might like to change it to obtain more power for yourself at the 
expense of some other sysops doesn't mean that it *has* been changed.

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