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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: pathalias ignores fast Internet connections
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Date: 19 Jun 89 18:18:12 GMT
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In article <3183@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> ahd@sun.soe!clutx.clarkson.edu writes:

| 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.

  The change was put in pathalias in January 1985, in V6. I don't have
the posting anymore (yes I do throw something away) but my recollection
is that the change was not added for any high and lofty moral reason,
but because a hybred address usually broke mailers to the point that the
mail might not go through at all. The code in question is in mapit.c in
the 'costof' module.

  I have generated maps with this code disabled, but I only loked at the
output and did not try using it. Mailers are a lot better than they were
five years ago, and these might well work.

  Obviously the poster who said that it's a bug in pathalias not a
feature has never looked at the code or the documentation. Not using
mixed addresses was promoted as one of the reasons to upgrade to V6. You
may not like what it does, bvut it works as designed.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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