Subj : RVIA Crap
To   : Ross Cassell
From : Carl Austin Bennett
Date : Fri May 11 2001 02:44 pm

 RC> The fact that this RVIA flag shows a HUB that has been gone for 1.5 
 RC> months now and that the node flying that flag also resides in a 
 RC> region that had its RC (Carol) also pushing for these flags, goes to 
 RC> show that the biggest inherrent weakness with that flag in regards to 
 RC> treating it as reliable source data for purposes or routing.

One key difference: with the manually-generated list, one can submit info for a 
hub in New York and watch it be misapplied to disrupt mail for a California 
net. With the nodelist tag, Albany's mistakes only affect Albany, no one else.

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