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From: ahd@sun.soe!clutx.clarkson.edu (Drew Derbyshire,,,9143397425)
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Subject: Re: pathalias ignores fast Internet connections
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Date: 18 Jun 89 03:30:04 GMT
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From article <27059@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, by ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen):
> [what UUCP Map & pathalias gives:]
>> 	uunet!mtxinu!ucbvax!machine.berkeley.edu!user
>> Clearly, the optimal route is:
>> 	uunet!machine.berkeley.edu!user
> 
> It is a flaw in the UUCP Mapping project.  If it weren't, then I would know why
> it wasn't because the UUCP Mapping project would have told me why not
> (as a user) and how to do it right.  As it is, it is fairly flawed.

Disclaimer... the following is personal opinion... and I don't have the
supporting docs at hand.

I would not call it a flaw.  Rather, it avoids use of the internet
because the internet HAS NOT AGREED to be a backbone for UUCP traffic.
While the above use of the internet would be legal (berkeley being on
the net), using the internet as a mail carrier between other networks
is explicitly frowned upon by the those who rule.

Since UUCP sites don't pay for those nice T1 links making up the
Internet backbones, their view is not unreasonable.

In practice, a message often starts on UUCP and ends up on Bitnet via
NSFNET and CSNET, but wholesale (official routing) via the internet
would get the net.police out in droves.

Drew Derbyshire
Clarkson University Class of 1989 (7 years late)

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