Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 3/23/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!cbosgd!ksh From: ksh@cbosgd.UUCP (Karen Summers-Horton) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Progress Report for UUCP Project Message-ID: <243@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 22:52:03 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.243 Posted: Mon Aug 13 22:52:03 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Aug-84 00:32:55 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 36 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