Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: sigh (was Re: Short-circuiting a route) Message-ID: <5017@ficc.uu.net> Date: 14 Jul 89 21:22:44 GMT References: <1062@aber-cs.UUCP> <59767@uunet.UU.NET> <3648@ncar.ucar.edu> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 22 In article , karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes about two rabid rerouters routing through each other. > The fact that you address the matter as "if" implies that you have > never seen this occur. Is this so? I have never seen it occur, > either. I've had this happen to messages of mine at least once, and possibly twice. I wish I still had the message, but it was some time ago... you'll have to take my word for it. I seem to recall that one of the participants was at athena.mit.edu, and I don't recall where the other was, but it was another university. Most of the time rerouting just breaks a working path and I end up with a bounced message or a vanished one. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | Th-th-th-that's all folks... Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | -- Mel Blanc Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | May 30 1908 - Jul 10 1989