[geeks] nerd reading for a Friday night ... old-skool waxed

[der Mouse]

> Did uucp maps have a mechanism for expressing how quick and reliable
> particular links were ?

Yes, though not a particularly good one.  (There was simply a
preference value, which gave no indication of the speed/reliability
tradeoff - a fast but flaky link might well have the same preference
value as a slow but solid link.)

> I would guess that without that, email over uucp could be very
> variable in reliability and speed.

Even with that, it could. :-)

> Also wasn't it necessary to manually install the map ?

Yes, in the early days of the mapping project.  Later, when the maps
got posted to (IIRC) comp.uucp.maps, you could set it up to feed new
maps into your local pathalias database automatically.

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