How the mapping started

Rich Salz (rsalz@bbn.com)
Wed, 26 Sep 90 10:00:58 EDT

Mark can probably fill in the gaps, and time-frame, for this. Early Usenix
proceedings (I guess anything before Portland counts as early these days)
have reports from the UUCP Mapping Project, and I think a map, too.

>From sob@harvisr.harvard.edu Mon Nov 27 21:28:17 1989
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 89 20:36:11 EST
From: Scott Bradner <sob@harvisr.harvard.edu>
To: rsalz@BBN.COM
Subject: Re: Questions about the start of the mapping projecdt

Well,
The original data was collected by Steve Bellovin but he sort
of gave up at some point. I think that Peter Honeyman did some collecting
back then also.

At that time I was running wjh12 as a internet/uucp/bitnet gateway.
I needed some better data. So I:
1/ had a programmer here rig up a scan-the-news-headers program
to get an operating base
2/ sent out:
a) a posting to some newsgroup asking for the info
b) letters to usenet & root at all nodes that I
had found by scanning headers
c) then to all nodes found in the new data

When I started the process I got calls from Rob Kolstad & Mark Horton
Rob offered to help in the data gathering, we agreed to have
him start at one end of the alphebet & me at the other.

Mark was about to do the same thing, Rob & I agreed to pass on
the data to Mark as we got it done.

After the 1st full pass, Rob & I passed all operations over to Mark & the
mapping project.

Scott

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