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From: ksh@cbosgd.UUCP (Karen Summers-Horton)
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Subject: Progress Report for UUCP Project
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Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 22:52:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 13 22:52:03 1984
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This is the progress report for the Usenix UUCP Project for the month
of July, 1984.  I realize that these progress reports are normally
posted on the first of the month, but due to an extraordinary amount
of work at the beginning of the month, I was delayed.

The big progress to report is the posting of the UUCP map to Usenet.
The posting began, a little late, on August 4, 1984 and is still
continuing.  We've run into several problems with the posting, but
the entire thing WILL be posted, so we are stressing patience in
Usenet readers.  We are also attempting to obtain the most recent
version of pathalias, and will post that after the maps.  Since
nothing of this magnitude, involving 8 separate people posting, has
ever been posted to Usenet, problems were bound to arise.  But thanks
to several quick-thinking people involved in the project, things are
still going amazingly smoothly.

With regards to the mail software portion of the project, 
Paul Bame did some last minute work on his mailer, then sent it
to Berry for distribution.  Berry had some trouble getting it out,
but we finally got it out to everybody around the end of the month.

And the news software portion began final beta testing of 2.10.2.  It's
ready to go, we're just waiting for the UUCP map to die down to post
it so we won't flood the net which is already carrying more traffic
than usual.

And with respect to the UUCP Sitename Registry run by Lauren 
Weinstein, a committee has been formed to determine policy on name
rejections.  We are currently debating about the scope of the
committee and what the legal implications of any policy we choose
might be.

As always, we welcome comments and suggestions.

	Karen Summers-Horton