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From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: email anarchy (was: sigh (was: Short-circuiting a route))
Message-ID: <3688@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 89 21:05:55 GMT
References: <1062@aber-cs.UUCP> <59767@uunet.UU.NET> <3648@ncar.ucar.edu> <3842@phri.UUCP> <330@capmkt.COM> <115056@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <Jul.12.11.35.53.1989.20053@NET.BIO.NET>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <Jul.12.11.35.53.1989.20053@NET.BIO.NET> lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) writes:
>IN ALMOST EVERY CASE, given a path of a!b!c!d!e..., if I am `b', I can
>determine whether the `d' you mentioned is the `d' in the UUCP maps by
>checking to see if `c' claims that `d' is a neighbor.

   Yes, you COULD do this, but I am willing to bet that the vast majority of
"rerouting" sites do not bother to do this.

--Greg