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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: sigh (was Re: Short-circuiting a route)
Message-ID: <24C25985.500@ateng.com>
Date: 17 Jul 89 22:11:17 GMT
References: <1062@aber-cs.UUCP> <59767@uunet.UU.NET> <3648@ncar.ucar.edu> <3842@phri.UUCP> <330@capmkt.COM> <Jul.12.10.54.13.1989.18547@NET.BIO.NET> <14467@bfmny0.UUCP>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff):
>Ah'm just a simpul country lawyuh <snuffle>, but isn't the following true?
>
> * If I am site X, and site Y is a direct neighbor of mine whom I poll
>   daily or better (maybe better than anyone else if it's worse than daily),
>   but I see a piece of incoming mail of the form a!b!X!c!d!e!Y!f!g,
>   then it's reasonable for me to reroute it as a!b!X!Y!f!g.

No.  In UUCP land, you have NO guarantee that the Y known by you is the same
Y that appears in the bang path.
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